< Pear and almond cake

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Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• 100g soft butter
• 70g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 100g Self Raising White Flour
• 100g ground almonds
• 1 teaspoon almond essense
• 3 ripe pears
• butter, for tin

Method

• Pre-heat oven to 170°C and grease cake tin
• Grind your whole almonds in blender if you’re using whole almonds
• Put the butter cubes and sugar into a mixing bowl and beat together until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the eggs one at a time.
• Sieve the flour into the bowl and mix well.
• Add almond essense and ground almonds and stir to combine.
• Tip the mixture into the prepared tin and smooth the top.
• Slice the pears and arrange them over the top of the cake.
• Optinal: Scatter sugar over the top.
• Bake for 50-55 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.