This cake is a nice light finish to a fresh summer meal. Enjoy with a scoop of ice cream or dollop of whipped cream.
By Rachel Swetnam
Coconut Milk Weetabix Pear Cake
- Total Time: 30 minutes
Description
The coconut milk brings a creamy, fatty richness to the cake without a strong flavor, allowing the pears, cinnamon and caramelized sugar to work together in harmony.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups pears, cubed, set aside in a bowl of water and a bit of lemon juice
- 1 3/4 cups flour (whole wheat or all purpose should do fine)
- 3 Weetabix biscuits, crushed (about 3/4 cup)
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1/2 cup demerara (turbinado) sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup walnuts, chopped
- 1/2 cup applesauce
- 1 cup coconut milk
- 3 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 2 tablespoons demerara (turbinado) sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Oil and flour a 9×9 cake pan or two loaf pans.
- Incorporate all dry ingredients (flour through walnuts) in a large bowl. In a smaller bowl, stir together the wet ingredients (applesauce, coconut milk and olive oil).
- Pour the wet ingredients over the dry, and stir just enough to barely combine all ingredients.
- Drain the pears and fold them gently into the batter.
- Pour batter into prepared tin(s) and sprinkle the two tablespoons of sugar over the top. Bake for 55 minutes to an hour.
- Start checking cake after 25-30 minutes. The top should be brown and a toothpick inserted in the center should come out mostly clean.
- Cook Time: 30 mins
