Pamelas Spiced Pear Cake

INGREDIENTS:

• 40g butter
• 40g sugar
• 1 egg
• 60ml hot milk
• ¼ tsp baking soda
• 120g self raising flour
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• ¼ tsp ground ginger
• ¼ tsp nutmeg
• 1 pear pieces
• 1 filo pastry
• 1 icing sugar
• 1 maple custard 1 spring blossom

METHOD:

1. Pre‐heat oven to 220 degrees
2. Prepare baking mould, wipe bottom and side with oil and lay baking paper down then dust with flour.
3. Line with buttered filo pastry, Shape the precooked pear halves
4. In a small bowl cream together the butter and sugar
5. Add the egg and beat into the cake mix
6. Boil the milk, add the baking soda till it froths up then add it to the cake mix
7. Sift in the flour and spices, Pour the cake mix into the filo pastry mould
8. Tuck the pears into the cake mix
9. Bake cake for 15‐20 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes an.
10. Remove from oven allow to cool,
11. Present on the plate with maple custard, blossom and icing sugar