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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> UK >> English

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. For the pears, melt the butter in a medium skillet on medium heat. | 2. Add the pears and cook, turning occasionally, 5 minutes, until light golden. | 3. Stir in the lime juice, honey and vanilla bean and cook for 2 more minutes. | 4. Stir in the liqueur and remove from the heat. | 5. Let the pears steep about 3 hours. | 6. Discard the vanilla bean. | 7. For the cake, in a large bowl, beat the butter, sugar and lime zest with a hand mixer at medium speed until smooth. | 8. Blend in the baking powder and salt. | 9. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. | 10. Turn the speed to low and beat in the flour until just blended. | 11. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let rest 20 minutes. | 12. Meanwhile, grease a 9" springform pan and line the bottom with parchment paper. | 13. Drain the pears, reserving the syrup. | 14. Pat the pears lightly dry. | 15. Thinly slice half of the pears and reserve. | 16. Chop the remaining pears and stir into the batter. | 17. Transfer the batter to the prepared pan and level the top. | 18. Arrange the pear slices on top. | 19. Bake in a preheated 400 degree F oven for 10 minutes. | 20. Reduce the heat to 300 degrees F and bake until the top of the cake feels springy and the tester comes out clean, about 1 hour. | 21. Cool the cake in the pan on a rack. | 22. Remove the cake to a wire rack. | 23. Skewer the top and spoon the reserved syrup over the top. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
butter	3	tablespoons	unsalted	256.5	11.7855	8.0145	21.6
pear	3		peeled quartered cored	239.4	63.966	1.5119999999999998	0.588
lime juice	1/4	cup		15.125	5.0941	0.2541	0.0424
honey	3	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
vanilla bean	1/2			6.047999999999999	0.2656	0.0013	0.0013
pear liqueur	6	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
butter	3/4	cup	unsalted	256.5	11.7855	8.0145	21.6
superfine sugar	3/4	cup		580.5	149.97	0.0	0.0
lime zest	2			-	-	-	-
baking powder	1	teaspoon		2.438	1.2742	0.0	0.0
salt	1/8	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
egg	4			286.0	1.44	25.12	19.02
purpose flour	1 1/4	cups	sifted	-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.