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Roast pears and olive oil cake recipe
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Roast pears and olive oil cake recipe

15 ingredients 10 min + 1 hr 45 min 8 people openrecipes

A moist olive oil cake, drenched in a dessert wine syrup and served with sweet roast pears and a dollop of crème fraïche.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

988
Calories
28g
Protein
28g
Fat
152g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 8 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Milk 1 cup (244ml) whole 149
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Pear 1 medium (178g) 101
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Dessert Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 115 caster sugar
  • g eggs
  • 2 olive oil
  • 185 dessert wine
  • ml milk
  • 125 lemons, finely grated zest only
  • ml plain flour
  • 80 baking powder
  • ml pears, preferably South African Forelle pears, halved or quartered lengthways, core removed, stem left intact
  • 2 dessert wine
  • 185 olive oil
  • g caster sugar
  • 2.5 caster sugar
  • tsp dessert wine
  • 4 reduced fat crème fraïche

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