Autumn Frangipane Cake
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Difficulty:
easy
Difficulty
Preparation:
45 min.
Preparation
Ingredients
for
6
- Ingredients
- ½ cup self-rising flour (sifted)
- ¼ cup ground almonds
- ½ cup superfine caster sugar
- ½ cup butter (softened)
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp Almond extract
- 2 Pear (peeled, cored and diced)
- powdered sugar (to dust)
Preparation steps
1.
Preheat the oven to 190°C (170 fan) | 375°F | gas 5 and grease and line a 23 cm round cake tin.
2.
Combine the flour, ground almonds, sugar, butter, eggs and almond essence in a bowl and whisk together for 2 minutes or until smooth.
3.
Fold in the chopped pears and spoon into the prepared tin then bake for 30 - 35 minutes. Test with a wooden toothpick, if it comes out clean, the cake is done. Transfer the cake to a wire rack and leave to cool completely before dusting with icing sugar.
