Pear Cake with Black Pepper and Buttermilk - Kitchen Wrangler | Melissa Guerra

Ingredients

• 2 pears, ripe but still firm
• 4 cups of water
• 2 sticks whole cinnamon
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 2 1/4 cup sifted cake flour (280 gr)
• 1 tsp. baking powder (4 gr)
• 1 tsp. baking soda (6 gr)
• 1 tsp. salt (4 gr)
• 1 tsp. cinnamon (2 gr)
• 1/2 tsp. ground cloves (1gr)
• 1/4 tsp. ground black pepper (.5gr)
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened (57 gr)
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed (100 gr)
• 1 cup granulated sugar (200 gr)
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract (10ml)
• 1 1/4 cup buttermilk (300ml)
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar for dusting (62 gr)