PEAR + TEA SPICE CAKE | Amazing flavors combined

Dear Friends, If you love tea and cake as much as we do, then we truly hope you’ll enjoy this vintage spiced cake recipe that combines both.

This recipe was originally picked up at an old fruit farm in California. We would always go visit as a family in the fall. It soon became a New Year’s tradition to make this cake while watching the Rose Bowl parade and now when living in a cozy cottage in the Sleepy Hollow country, we started to make it in January. Isn’t that fun when recipes get passed on with their own traditions?

A tea cake to remember!

The original recipe is made with chamomile tea, but I must confess that we have experimented a bit and used a more nutty tea that we had handy and we hope to try even more flavors, because, so far it always pairs so well with the spiced pears.

Enjoy!
-Lindsay Dianne

WET INGREDIENTS:

• 1 1/2 Sticks of Butter
• 1 1/2 Cups of Light Brown Sugar
• 4 Eggs
• 1 tbsp Vanilla
• 1/2 Cup of strongly brewed Tea (about 4 tea bags for 5 minutes)
• 1/2 Cup of Buttermilk (or Greek Yogurt)
• 3 medium ripe Pears.

DRY INGREDIENTS:

• 2 1/2 Cups Flour
• 2 tsp Baking Powder
• 1 tsp Ground Nutmeg
• 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
• 1 tsp Ground Ginger
• 1/2 tsp Ground Cloves
• 1/2 tsp Allspice
• 1/2 tsp Salt

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DIRECTIONS:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Butter the pan, 9 x 12 (or similar).
• In a large bowl cream Butter and Sugar.
• Add Eggs, Vanilla, Buttermilk (or Yogurt) and Tea.
• In another bowl blend together Flour, Spices, Salt, Baking Powder, and Baking Soda.
• Slowly add the dry mixture with the wet mixture, chop Pears and fold them into the mixture.
• Bake for 40 minutes or until golden brown. (Keep an eye on it.)
• Let cool down, and make yourself a relaxing moment to enjoy it.