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FABULOUSLY SWEET PEAR CAKE

Fabulously Sweet Pear Cake image

This is a recipe of my great-great grandmother's. It is wonderfully sweet and fresh. It's so delicious, it never lasts long!

Provided by Rory

Categories Desserts Cakes Yellow Cake Recipes

Yield 14

Number Of Ingredients 10

Ingredients

4 fresh pears
1 cup white sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Steps:

Peel and slice pears thin. Mix sliced pears with white sugar, brown sugar, and nuts and let sit for one hour. After sitting puree pear mixture in a blender.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 13x9 inch pan.
By hand stir in until just blended; the flour, salt, and baking soda. Add dry ingredients to pear mixture and add oil, vanilla and eggs. Pour batter into prepared pan.
Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 451 calories, Carbohydrate 60.5 g, Cholesterol 26.6 mg, Fat 22.4 g, Fiber 3.3 g, Protein 4.6 g, SaturatedFat 2.8 g, Sodium 278.4 mg, Sugar 35.8 g

OLD FASHIONED PEAR SPICE CAKE [WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING]

Old Fashioned Pear Spice Cake [with Cream Cheese Frosting] image

Make and share this Old Fashioned Pear Spice Cake [with Cream Cheese Frosting] recipe from Food.com.

Provided by Recipe Junkie

Categories Dessert

Time 1h15m

Yield 12 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 15

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups salad oil
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground salt
2 cups all-purpose flour
4 eggs
3 medium firm ripe pears, peeled, cored and diced (about 1 and 1/2 lbs total)
1/2 cup chopped almonds or 1/2 cup walnuts
1/4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine, at room temperature
1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups sifted powdered sugar

Steps:

In the large bowl of an electric mixture, combine sugar, oil, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger salt and flour.
Mix to blend; then beat at medium-high speed for 5 minutes.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Using a rubber spatula, fold pears and nuts into batter.
Spread in an ungreased 9 by 13 inch baking pan.
Bake in a 350 oven until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. (50-55 minutes).
Let cool in pan on a wire rack.
Meanwhile, prepare Cream Cheese Frosting.
For frosting:.
Beat [butter, cream cheese and vanilla] until fluffy.
Gradually beat in powdered sugar until frosting is of good spreading consistency.
Spread frosting over cool cake.