Pear cake is a fruit cake made with fresh pears, often cooked in a skillet with spices and nuts, and topped with vanilla or caramel frosting. It can also be made with a gingerbread or chocolate base. Pears are coated in sugar and mixed with flour, spices, and other ingredients to form the batter. Glazes are made with brown sugar, milk, and butter.
A pear cake is a type of fruit cake made with fresh pears. Often made in a skillet, a pear pie usually has spices and may contain nuts, usually pecans or walnuts. A simple vanilla or caramel frosting often tops these cakes. Although pear pie is sometimes served in restaurants, it is more often homemade.
As with all pies, pear pies are made with sugar, flour, and baking powder or baking soda. Depending on the recipe, they may contain just egg whites or whole eggs and usually include salt and vanilla extract. Regardless of the recipe, fresh ripe pears, which are peeled, sliced and chopped, are a necessity for this dessert.
Cinnamon is often added to pear pie batter. Other spices, such as nutmeg or cloves can also be added. Brown sugar, in addition to white sugar, is included in some recipes.
This dessert can also be made from a completely different cake base. For example, including pears in a gingerbread cake creates a gingerbread pear cake. Gingerbread cakes include molasses and ginger as well as dark brown sugar, cinnamon and allspice.
Another popular variation is a chocolate pear cake, which includes semi-sweet chocolate chunks and pear pieces. Chocolate pear cakes don’t usually include the same spices as those without chocolate. They’re also more often served with whipped cream or ice cream rather than a frosting.
In most pear pie recipes, chopped pears are coated in sugar and left to sit for an hour. Next, the flour, spices, and baking soda or powder are combined separately, and the other ingredients are mixed into the sugar-pear mixture. Then both the flour mixture and the pear mixture are combined to form the batter.
Some recipes, however, such as those for Pear Chocolate Gingerbread Pear Cake, do not instruct the baker to coat the pears in sugar first. Instead, these cakes are made as they would be without the pears, and then the pears and chocolate are placed on top of the batter after it’s in the pan. The pie rises in the oven, but the pears don’t, so the fruit ends up in the middle of the pie.
The plain glazes that often complement these desserts are usually made with a combination of brown sugar, milk, and butter. Other flavors, such as vanilla, may be added. Making a glaze mainly involves mixing and thoroughly heating or blending the ingredients.
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