Winter Spiced Pear Cake (Gluten Free!)

Winter Spiced Pear Cake (Gluten Free!)

  Ready in : 45 mins

Winter Spiced Pear Cake (Gluten Free!) takes around 45 minutes from beginning to end. For $1.26 per serving, you get a dessert that serves 8. Watching your figure? This gluten free recipe has 387 calories, 6g of protein, and 21g of fat per serving. This recipe from Foodista has 2 fans. If you have sucanat, arrowroot flour, eggs, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Winter. Overall, this recipe earns a rather bad spoonacular score of 23%. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Spiced Ginger Pear Energy Bites (can be vegan & gluten free!) & a Sneak Peek of my new Blog Design, Gluten-Free Pear and Almond Cake, and Gluten-Free Pear Snack Cake.

Ingredients

almond flour

almond flour

0.5 cup

arrowroot flour

arrowroot flour

0.5 cup

baking powder

baking powder

2 tsp

cinnamon

cinnamon

0.5 tsp

coconut flour

coconut flour

0.5 cup

eggs

eggs

4

full fat coconut cream

full fat coconut cream

0.25 cup

ground cardamom

ground cardamom

0.5 teaspoons

sprinkles of lemon juice

sprinkles of lemon juice

2

maple syrup

maple syrup

2 tbsp

but pears

but pears

3 medium

sea salt

sea salt

2 large pinches

pumpkin spice blend

pumpkin spice blend

0.5 teaspoon

sucanat

sucanat

0.25 cup

spiced sugar

spiced sugar

8 servings

vanilla extract

vanilla extract

2 teaspoons

local

local

8 tbsp

Cooking in Steps

  1. 1
    Preheat the oven to 350F. Butter/grease a 9-10 cake pan.In a small bowl, stir together the sucanat, cardamom, pumpkin spice blend, and cinnamon. Set aside 2 tablespoons of the spiced sugar to top the cake at the very end; add the rest to the butter. Cream together the butter, maple syrup, and two tbsp of the spiced sucanat with a mixer, scraping down the sides of the bowl, for about 3 minutes.

    maple syrup

    maple syrup

    seasoning mix

    seasoning mix

    cardamom

    cardamom

    cinnamon

    cinnamon

    pumpkin

    pumpkin

    sucanat

    sucanat

    butter

    butter

    cream

    cream

    sugar

    sugar

    cake form
    cake form
    blender
    blender
    bowl
    bowl
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    oven
  2. 2
    Add the eggs one at a time, and beat to incorporate each egg.In a separate medium bowl, sift together the coconut, arrowroot, and almond flours, and the baking powder, and salt.

    baking powder

    baking powder

    arrowroot

    arrowroot

    coconut

    coconut

    almonds

    almonds

    egg

    egg

    salt

    salt

    bowl
    bowl
  3. 3
    Add half of the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and stir on low until just combined.

    butter

    butter

  4. 4
    Add the coconut cream and vanilla, and mix on low until just combined. Finally, add the remaining dry ingredients, mixing until just combined. The mixture will be quite thick.Now, cut the pears off of their cores. Slice up one cup of medium sized pear cubes, and cut the rest of the pears into 1/2 wedges.

    coconut cream

    coconut cream

    vanilla

    vanilla

    pear

    pear

  5. 5
    Drizzle the lemon juice over the wedges to preserve them; Fold the pear cubes into the batter and transfer the batter to the greased cake pan.Take the pear wedges and fan them out around the cake, or create your own design if you like! Press them into the batter a little bit so that some of the batter comes through.

    lemon juice

    lemon juice

    pear

    pear

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    cake form
  6. 6
    Sprinkle the leftover 2 tbsp spiced sugar over the top of the cake.

    sugar

    sugar

  7. 7
    Bake the cake until a toothpick comes out just barely clean, about 35-50 minutes (Varies depending on the oven).This cake is perfect with coffee, with breakfast, for afternoon snack, or for dessert!Enjoy!

    coffee

    coffee

    toothpicks
    toothpicks
    oven
    oven