Pear, Honey And Lime Cake

Total Time: 4 hrs 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 4 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 3 forelle pears, peeled, quartered and cored
• 1/4 cup lime juice
• 3 tablespoons honey
• 1/2 vanilla bean, split
• 6 tablespoons pear liqueur
• 3/4 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 3/4 cup superfine sugar
• 2 limes, zest of
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 4 large eggs
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, sifted

Recipe

• 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.