Caramel-Glazed Pear Cake

chocolate moose

Thu, Feb 28 2008, 2:46 pm

Caramel-Glazed Pear Cake

4 pears, peeled and diced (about 3 cups)
1 T sugar
3 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 1/4 cups oil
3 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cups pecans, coarsely chopped
2 tsp vanilla or rum, sorry Motek
Caramel glaze - see below

Toss together pears and 1 T sugar; let stand 5 minutes.

Beat your eggs, the 2 cups sugar and oil until blended. Combine flour, salt, and baking soda, and add to egg mixture. Mix until well-blended.

Fold in pears, chopped pecans, and vanilla.

Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch Bundt pan or 9 by 13 cake pan. Bake 350 degrees for 1 hour or until done.

Remove from pan and drizzle Caramel Glaze over warm cake.

Caramel Glaze:

1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup margarine
1/4 cup pareve liquid like Rice Dream

Stir together brown sugar, fat and liquid in small saucepan over medium heat; bring to a boil, and cook, stirring constantly 2 1/2 minutes or until sugar dissolves.

bashinda

Thu, Feb 28 2008, 10:05 pm

This sounds so yummy. I wonder if my chocolate oriented family might eat it though. Maybe the trips. They're still open minded in their food choices. I have to indoctrinate them to eat not just chocolate desserts, which is challenging given that I'm also pretty chocolate oriented! LOL