Pear Cranberry Cake Recipes

PEAR CRANBERRY CAKE

Steps:

• Make cake:
• Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle. Butter cake pan.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, and spices.
• Beat together sugar, oil, eggs, and vanilla with an electric mixer until combined well.
• At low speed, mix in pears and cranberries, then mix in flour mixture until incorporated.
• Spoon batter into pan.
• Bake until a wooden pick inserted into center of cake comes out clean, 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours.
• Cool in pan 30 minutes, then turn out onto a rack and cool completely.
• Make glaze:
• Bring cream, brown sugar, corn syrup, vanilla, cinnamon sticks, and a pinch of salt to a boil in a small heavy saucepan, stirring occasionally, then simmer until slightly thickened, about 10 minutes.
• Cool glaze 5 minutes. Discard cinnamon sticks, then pour glaze over cake, letting some drip down sides.

CRANBERRY-PEAR COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the flour, 3/4 cup sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, salt and baking soda. In a small bowl, whisk the egg, buttermilk, butter and vanilla. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in the pear, cranberries and orange zest., Transfer to a 9-in. springform pan coated with cooking spray and dusted with flour. Combine brown sugar and remaining sugar; sprinkle over batter. Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Serve warm.

PEAR AND CRANBERRY CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Grease an 10-inch tube pan.
• Place pears, cranberries , brown sugar and cinnnamon in a medium sized bowl. Stir to combine . Reserve.
• Beat eggs, and sugar until combined. Add oil, orange juice and vanilla. Beat well. Add remaining dry ingredients, beating just until combined. Batter will be thick.
• Spoon 2/3 of the batter into the prepared pan. Place pear mixture over batter. Spoon remaining batter over pear mixture. Do not worry if pear mixture is not completely covered. Sprinkle coarse sugar over batter.
• Bake in preheated oven 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

PEAR-CRANBERRY UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine 6 tablespoons butter and 3/4 cup brown sugar in a medium skillet, and cook over medium-high heat, stirring constantly, until melted and thoroughly combined, about 6 minutes. Pour into a 10-by-2-inch professional round cake pan.
• Peel pears, core, and slice into 1/2-inch-thick wedges. Coat with lemon juice, and arrange on top of brown-sugar mixture in a spiral pattern around edge of pan. Fan out slices in center. Sprinkle 1/2 cup cranberries over pears, and set aside.
• Sift flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and ginger together in a medium bowl, and set aside. Combine remaining 6 tablespoons of butter with remaining cup brown sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer, and beat until well combined. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Add milk alternately with flour mixture, beginning and ending with four; beat until smooth. Stir in remaining 1/2 cup cranberries; pour over fruit in pan. Bake until a tester inserted in the center of cake comes out clean, about 40 minutes.
• Transfer to a wire rack to cool for 15 minutes. Run a knife around edges and invert onto a serving platter. Serve with spice ice cream.

PEAR AND CRANBERRY UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Cut a rectangle out of waxed paper to fit an 8x12-inch cake pan. Spray the pan with cooking spray, then place waxed paper liner over the bottom.
• Melt butter in a large skillet. Add 2 cups sugar and cook until sugar has dissolved and mixture is bubbling, about 3 minutes. Add pear slices; reduce heat to low and cook for 5 minutes. Turn off heat and add cranberries.
• Whisk flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, cloves, and nutmeg together in a bowl.
• Combine remaining 2 cups sugar, milk, oil, eggs, and vanilla in another bowl using a hand mixer until cake batter is smooth. Gradually mix in dry ingredients until well combined. Fold in walnuts.
• Pour pear-cranberry mixture into the prepared cake pan. Use a spatula to spread cake batter evenly on top of fruit.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 70 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
• Place a platter on top of the cake pan and carefully flip the pan and platter over, allowing the cake to settle on the platter. Lift cake pan off and serve.

CRANBERRY PEAR CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Heat oven to 350 F. Spray a 10-inch springform pan with a removable bottom, lightly. Set aside.
• 2. In a large bowl, beat together margarine and sugar until light a smooth. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add in the vanilla and almond extracts.
• 3. Combine flour, baking powder, and baking soda. Alternately, beat flour mixture, orange juice, and zest into the egg mixture; beginning and ending with the flour.
• 4. Pour batter into prepared pan. Carefully spread cranberry sauce on top. Set aside. Using a vegetable peeler, peel pears, core, and cut as suggested above into 16 slices. Arrange on top of the cranberry sauce (large end to the outside of the pan rim).
• 5. Sprinkle 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp sugar, and a pinch of nutmeg over the pears. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until edges are golden, pears are tender and cake test is done with a toothpick.
• 6. Let cake rest on a wire rack in the cake pan for about 30 minutes. Place onto cake plate; then loosen with a rubber spatula, if necessary. Loosen metal latch and remove the ring. Let cool completely. Serve with whipped topping, vanilla or coconut ice cream, or orange sherbet.