Crunchy pear and cherry cake

Name: Crunchy pear and cherry cake
Ingredients: 65 g/2½ oz/generous ¼ cup ready-to-eat dried pears, chopped; 60 ml/4 tbsp milk; 40 g/1½ oz/3 tbsp chopped crystallized ginger; 65 g/2½ oz/generous ¼ cup glace (candied) cherries, washed and quartered; 225 g/8 oz/2 cups plain (all-purpose) flour; 115 g/4 oz/generous ½ cup caster (superfine) sugar; 2 eggs; 10 ml/2 tsp baking powder; 30 ml/2 tbsp demerara (raw) sugar; 115 g/4 oz/½ cup butter, plus extra for greasing

Preparation info

Serves
8–10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cakes

By Ann Nicol

Published 2014

About

This is a great cake to make with store-cupboard ingredients. With dried pears, glacé cherries and crystallized ginger, it has a lot of flavour and is finished off with a crunchy sugar topping.

Ingredients

115 g/4 oz/½ cup butter, plus extra for greasing
115

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Grease and line a 900 g/2 lb