Still away in the cold north for the holidays but I wanted to share this quick and easy (and festive, dare I say) warm brown sugar pear cake with you. I made it just before leaving and couldn’t bear not to share it with you. It’s based on the peach coffee cake from Good and Cheap, and uses pears in place of peaches and nutmeg in place of cinnamon. This is a good reminder that this cake recipe is mega adaptable to just about any fruit. I love it so much. It gets all browned and crunchy and sweet on the outside, and gooey and soft and moist and sticky on the inside. Oh man.

I love eating pears during the holidays and I tend to get obsessed with poaching them, putting them in drinks and generally trying to add them to everything so it was just a matter of time before they ended up in this cake. This warm brown sugar pear cake is informal like a coffee cake and is perfect served with a hot cup of coffee or tea and could even work for brunch or breakfast if you are feeling indulgent over the holidays.

Warm Brown Sugar Pear Cake

A simple, homey, nutmeg and brown sugar cake with dreamy chunks of pear, a crunchy browned outside and a gooey center.

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Course Dessert

Servings 8

Ingredients

  

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• 4 pears pitted and cut into 8 pieces each
• 1/2 lemon juiced
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp nutmeg (optional)
• 1 cup butter (2 sticks) at room temperature
• 1 1/3 cups brown sugar packed
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 large eggs
• 1 Tbsp sugar for the topping

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