Salted Caramel Beer Cake with Pears
- Total Time: 1 hour 15 mins
Description
A cake made with buttermilk can cure an ache and make the blues vanish. Baked atop caramel and sliced pears, there is nothing this dessert can’t accomplish.
Ingredients
- Line a 23cm cake tin with a removeable bottom and spray or grease well. pre-heat the oven to 170C/325F
- 50gm butter ( 2 tablesppons)
- 1 cup sugar
- ¼ cup (60ml ) beer
- 1 T lemon/lime juice
- ½ cup water
- a pinch of salt
cake
- 1 1/3 cups flour (190gm)
- 1 cup sugar ( 200gm)
- ½ cup brown sugar (80gm)
- 150ml beer (5oz)
- 1 egg
- 60ml or ¼ cup of buttermilk
- 100gm, melted butter (3.5oz)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 large pears
Instructions
- Peel the pears and cut into 8ths or similar. Not thin slices, nice chunks. Arrange on the bottom of the tin
- Put the butter, sugar, lemon juice and beer in to a wide bottomed pot and bring to a simmer. Boil over medium to high heat till it starts to turn golden brown. Make sure it is a nice brown colour before adding the ½ cup of water. stir and bring back to the boil before taking off the heat and adding the salt, stir well.
- Pour enough of the caramel over the pears to cover, you probably wont need all of it . Set aside.
- Mix the dry ingredients, then add the beer, melted butter, egg and buttermilk and mix well.
- Pour the batter over the caramel and smooth down. Bake for around 50 minutes or untill a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
- Let the cake sit for 5-10 minutes after you take it out of the oven. Run a sharp knife around the edge carefully and remove removable side of the cake tin. . Turn the cake over onto a plate and remove the cake base, then peel off the baking paper. My second and third attempt were amazing.
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 50 mins
- Category: Baking, Dessert
