Pear Apple Spice Bundt Cake Recipes

PEAR SPICED BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Grease 12-cup fluted tube cake pan with shortening or cooking spray; light flour.
• Peel, core and chop 2 of the pears; place in blender. Cover; puree until smooth. Measure 1/2 cup of the puree. Reserve remaining puree for another use.
• In small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, salt and pumpkin pie spice. Set aside.
• In large bowl, beat 1/2 cup pear puree, the oil and granulated sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until combined. Add eggs one at a time, scraping down sides of bowl between each addition. Beat in vanilla. Add flour mixture; beat just until combined.
• Peel, core and chop remaining 3 pears. Fold chopped pears into cake batter. Pour into pan.
• Bake about 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool cake in pan 15 minutes. Place cooling rack upside down over pan; turn rack and pan over. Remove pan. Cool completely, about 45 minutes.
• To make icing, in 2-quart saucepan, cook butter, brown sugar, salt and cream over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil. Boil 1 minute. Remove from heat; let stand 5 to 10 minutes. With whisk, beat in powdered sugar until smooth. Immediately pour over cooled cake.

FRESH PEAR CAKE

Steps:

• Combine the pears and the sugar and let stand for one hour.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Spray a 10 inch bundt pan with non-stick cooking spray.
• Slightly beat the egg whites and combine them with the oil, chopped pecans and pear mixture.
• Stir the flour, salt, baking soda, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. Stir in the pear mixture. Pour batter into the prepared bundt pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Remove from oven ant let cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes before removing form pan.

APPLE PEAR CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the first 8 ingredients. Combine dry ingredients; stir into the fruit mixture. , Pour into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake at 325° until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool on a wire rack. , For frosting, in a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and butter until smooth. Beat in the milk and vanilla; frost cake. Store in the refrigerator.

APPLE PEAR SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°.
• Butter the 12" cast iron skillet.
• Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt together and sift.
• In a large sauce pan, melt the butter.
• Remove from heat and slow stir in the sugar, applesauce, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and eggs.
• Gradually add in the flour mixture, taking care to mix well.
• Once combine, stir in the raisins and the pears.
• Pour in the skillet.
• Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• Once the cake is cooked, remove it from the oven and allow to set for 10 minutes, then remove it from the cast iron pan and place it on a cooling rack.
• If using powdered sugar, sprinkle the top of the cake.
• Slice into wedges and serve with the optional vanilla bean ice cream.

SPICED RUM AND PEAR CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a small heavy saucepan, heat rum over medium heat. Bring to a boil; cook until liquid is reduced by half, 8-10 minutes. Remove from heat; cool., Beat sugar, eggs, oil, vanilla and cooled rum until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Sift together the next 5 ingredients; gradually beat into rum mixture. Stir in pears, walnuts and raisins. Transfer batter to a greased and floured 13x9-in. baking pan., Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 45-50 minutes. Cool cake in pan on rack. , For glaze, mix confectioners' sugar and rum; spread over cake. Cut into squares.

PEAR-SPICE BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• In a saucepan, spread granulated sugar in an even layer. Cook over medium-high heat, without stirring, until sugar around edge of pan melts and begins to turn golden, 3 to 4 minutes. Using a wooden spoon, slowly stir until all sugar has melted and mixture is translucent and golden.
• Add pear chunks to caramel, and stir to coat. Cook, covered, over low heat until very soft, 6 to 8 minutes, swirling pan occasionally. Using a potato masher, mash pears until they are broken down but still slightly chunky. Continue cooking, uncovered, 5 minutes more, stirring frequently. Remove from heat; let cool completely.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 10-inch (12-cup capacity) Bundt pan, tapping out excess. In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, baking soda, pepper, and nutmeg; set aside.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter, brown sugar, and honey on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until combined after each addition. With mixer on the lowest speed, add flour mixture in two batches, alternating with milk and beginning and ending with flour. Add reserved pear sauce and mix to combine, about 1 minute, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Do not overmix.
• Spoon batter into prepared pan and smooth with a small offset spatula. Bake, rotating pan halfway through, until cake is a deep golden brown and a cake tester inserted in center comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Transfer pan to a wire rack to cool slightly. Invert cake onto a wire rack set over a piece of parchment paper and allow to cool 10 minutes. Once cool, pour the glaze over the top, letting some drip down the sides. Alternatively, dust with confectioners' sugar. Garnish with pear chips, if using.

SPICE BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F.
• Butter and flour a 10 to 12 cup bundt pan (or spray with a baking spray that includes flour), and refrigerate while preparing the cake.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, & nutmeg together in a bowl and set aside. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter, sugar, & brown sugar together on high speed until light and fluffy, about three minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add the eggs, one at a time, scraping between additions. In a small bowl or measuring cup, stir together oil, vanilla, & buttermilk (or substitution). In the bowl with the butter and sugars, alternate additions of the flour and buttermilk mixtures at low speed, beginning and ending with flour. Mix just until combined and do not overwork the batter. Scrape down the sides of the bowl to make sure all ingredients are well incorporated.
• Pour the batter into the prepared bundt pan, smooth out the top, and firmly pound the pan against the countertop several times to tap out any air bubbles. Bake in the center of the oven for 50 to 55 minutes, or until a toothpick or cake tester comes out clean from the center of the cake.
• Transfer the pan to a wire rack to cool for about 20 to 30 minutes before turning the cake out onto the rack to cool completely. Once cool, drizzle with cream cheese glaze (recipe below) if desired. Cake should keep, in an air tight container at room temperature, for about 3 or 4 days.

PEAR APPLE SPICE BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease and flour a large bundt pan.
• In a medium bowl, mix together flours, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• In a large glass bowl, mix melted butter (make sure it is coolish), brown sugar and eggs, mixing until smooth.
• Mix flour mixture into the butter mixture a bit of a time without overmixing.
• Fold in apples and pears. Mixture will be thick.[img src="https://merryabouttown.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Pear-Apple-Spice-Bundt-Cake-Batter-620x348.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="348" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6329"]
• Spoon in to prepared bundt pan and smooth the top.[img src="https://merryabouttown.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Bundt-Cake-Ready-for-the-Oven-620x329.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="329" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6330"]
• Bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• Cool the cake in the pan for 20 minutes.
• Run a knife around the edges of the cake top and turn on to a cake plate.
• Sift powdered sugar on to the top of the cake.

APPLE-PEAR UPSIDE DOWN CAKE

Steps:

• Grease bottom and sides of 9-inch square cake pan. Add butter and melt in a 350F oven.
• Stir in brown sugar and spread evenly in pan; sprinkle with pecans.
• Peel, core and thinly slice apples and pear, slicing pear horizontally; toss together and arrange evenly over sugar mixture.
• CAKE: In a bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, and salt.
• Add butter, egg, buttermilk and vanilla.
• With electric mixer, beat on low speed until moistened; beat at medium speed for 1 minute, scraping sides of bowl.
• Spoon over fruit and spread evenly. Bake in a 350F oven for about 45 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean. Let cool on rack for 20 mnutes.
• Run knife around edge of cake; carefully invert onto a plate, replacing any bits that may stick to pan. Serve warm.

APPLE AND PEAR BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9" or 10" bundt pan with oil or butter.
• Sprinkle diced apples, pears and raisins with the sugar, set aside.
• In a small bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.
• In a large bowl, beat the eggs; add the oil, vanilla and pecans.
• Stir the flour mixture into the egg mixture, mix well. Add the apples, pears and raisins.
• Spread batter into the prepared bundt pan.
• Bake for 55 to 60 minutes, or until the top springs back when lightly touched. Cool in pan for 10 minutes; turn out onto a wire rack and let cake fininsh cooling. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar. (Tip: If you want to frost your cake, a sour cream frosting is very nice.).