Pear and walnut cake

A spiced pear cake with walnuts — a simple idea for an evening tea.

Ingredients

• pears — 4
• butter — 200 g
• sugar — 180 g
• eggs — 4
• flour — 200 g
• baking powder — 10 g
• nutmeg — 1/4 tsp
• ground ginger — 1/4 tsp
• walnuts — 50 g

Method

1. Heat the oven to 180°C.
2. Halve the pears, remove the seeds and cut them into cubes.
3. Beat room-temperature butter with the sugar until light and fluffy.
4. Add the eggs one at a time, beating to a smooth consistency.
5. Add the flour, baking powder, nutmeg and ginger and beat.
6. Add the pears and walnuts and fold with a spatula.
7. Transfer the batter to a tin. Bake for about 1 hour in an oven preheated to 180°C. The time varies with the diameter of the tin; a 20 cm tin works well. Check with a skewer.