Buttermilk Spice Cake - Kitchen Wrangler | Melissa Guerra

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups cake flour (312g)
• 1 tsp. baking powder (4g)
• 1 tsp. baking soda (6g)
• 1 tsp. salt (4g)
• 1 tsp. cinnamon (2g)
• ½ tsp. ground cloves (1g)
• ½ tsp ground black pepper (1g)
• ½ cup soft butter (115g)
• ½ cup light brown sugar firmly packed (100g)
• 1 cup granulated sugar (200g)
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract (5ml)
• 1 1/4 cups buttermilk (300ml)
• 1 cup wine (240ml)
• 1 1/2 cups water (360ml)
• 1 cup sugar (200g)
• ½ tsp. whole black pepper (1g)
• ½ tsp. whole cloves (1g)
• 4” whole cinnamon stick (10cm)
• 2 pears, peeled but left whole
• ½ cup powdered sugar (100g)