Plum cake with pears
March 3, 2009
Plum Cake with pears and zabaglione sauce
Thanks to a good prize and good quality of pears I decided to do a Plum Cake with pears and zabaglione sauce, and then I offered to my guests. This is the recipe:
1kg of pears
320 gr of butter
220 gr flour
3 eggs
200 gr icing sugar
50 gr vanilla sugar
½ bag of baking powder
2 spoon of Pear Grappa (Simple grappa is fine)
50 gr honey (linden tree flowers better)
Skin the pears and cut in slides only one; the other pears are cut in a small pieces. Let sieve in a pan the cut pears for about 3 min then add honey for another 5-6 minutes and stir. After that, let them rest for a while and then put everything in a plate.
Take a bowl and whip up 250 gr of butter, the icing sugar and the vanilla one, then add the eggs. Add also little by little the flour and the baking powder and a pinch of salt. At the end add the little pieces of pears and the two spoon of grappa.
Butter the plum cake mould; add the dough and oven for 60 min at 180 degrees. After cooking it let it rest and cool down and then decorate with the rest of the pears slides.
For the zabaglione cream: whip up 5 eggs yolk with 100 gr of sugar until it is done. Add ½ dl of Marsala (wine dessert) and ½ dl of white wine or water. Cook for about 40 min until you have a soft cream. Once it is cold you can add also some white yogurt…
It was so good that my guests asked for another slice!