Brown Butter Pear Cake
Course: DesertsCuisine: EuropeanPrep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
55
minutesAdditional Time
40
minutesTotal Time
1 hr 55 mins
Servings
16
Yield
1 (10-inch) tube cake
Ingredients
- Pear Cake
2 cups — all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon — baking soda
1 teaspoon — salt
1 teaspoon — ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon — ground nutmeg
1 ½ cups — white sugar
3 — eggs
1 cup — vegetable oil
1 teaspoon — vanilla extract
2 cups — peeled and diced pears
1 cup — chopped walnuts
- Brown Butter Icing
½ cup — unsalted butter
2 cups — confectioners’ sugar
1 teaspoon — vanilla extract
3 tablespoons — water, or as needed
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
- Whisk flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg together in large bowl.
- Beat sugar and eggs with an electric mixer on medium speed in a separate bowl until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in oil and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract until well-blended. Mix in flour mixture until batter is smooth. Fold in pears and walnuts. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 50 to 55 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before inverting onto a wire rack to cool completely, about 30 minutes.
- Melt butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until it is a rich brown color and has a nutty aroma, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in confectioners’ sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract until icing is thick and smooth. Stir in water, 1 tablespoon at a time, to thin icing until reaches desired consistency. Drizzle icing over cooled cake.
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