Honey-Cardamom Pear Cake

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Honey-Cardamom Pear Cake

  • Category: Dessert
  • Cuisine: American
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Ingredients

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Cake

  • 2 Cups Blanched Almond Flour
  • 1 tsp Baking Soda
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1 TB Ground Ginger
  • 2 tsp Ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp Ground Cardamom
  • 3 TB Coconut Oil, melted
  • 1 Cup Unsweetened Applesauce
  • 1/2 Cup 100% Pure Maple syrup
  • 2 Eggs ((for flax eggs, mix 2 TB flax meal with 6 TB warm water and let sit 5-10 minutes))
  • 1 TB Vanilla
  • 1 Large or 2 medium Bosc pears, thinly sliced ((a mandoline is great for this))
  • Coconut Whipped Cream to serve, optional ((see recipe notes))

Cardamom-Honey Glaze

  • 1/3 Cup Honey
  • 1/8 tsp Ground Cardamom

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350-degrees line a 9-inch Springform pan, greasing the sides with coconut oil.
  2. Mix dry ingredients in a medium-sized bowl (almond flour through cardamom)
  3. Mix wet ingredients (coconut oil through vanilla) in a large bowl
  4. Add dry to wet and still until just combined. Pour into prepared pan
  5. Artfully arrange pear slices onto the cake and put in the oven. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of cake comes out clean (may need to tent with foil if browning too quickly)
  6. Let cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan (and taking off parchment) and onto a wire rack over a baking sheet
  7. While cake is cooling, heat honey for 15-30 seconds in microwave or until just warm enough to thin out. Mix in cardamom (adding more if you want a stronger flavor)
  8. While cake is warm and on the rack, drizzle (or pour) honey over cake so that it sinks in. This makes the cake super moist and fairly sweet
  9. Transfer cake to platter and serve with optional coconut whipped cream. Enjoy!

Notes

For Coconut Whipped Cream, check out my recipe here

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