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.
- 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