Spiced pear cake

This cake works with pears as well as with garden apples. Add spices to taste: cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves.

Ingredients

• pears — 1.5–2 (depending on size)
• egg — 1
• milk — 150 ml
• butter — 100 g
• flour — 150 g
• baking powder — 10 g
• sugar — 130 g (less if the pears are sweet)
• cinnamon sugar — 30 g
• nutmeg — a pinch
• lemon juice
• salt — a pinch

Method

1. Beat the egg with the sugar with a mixer until pale and thick.
2. Add 50 g of softened butter and keep beating. Then pour in the milk.
3. Combine the flour with the baking powder, add to the mixture and stir.
4. Slice the pear thinly. Toss with cinnamon sugar, nutmeg and lemon juice. Cut half of the pear especially neatly for the top layer.
5. Grease the tin with butter, spread a little batter, then some pear, then batter, pear again, batter, and arrange the pear slices neatly on top.
6. Sprinkle with sugar and dot with the remaining butter.
7. Bake for 40–50 minutes in an oven preheated to 180°C.