Easy Pear Tea Cake...

This would have to be one of the easiest cakes around to make...

I found this on Lorraine's blog, Not Quite Nigella a little while ago...

Being gluten free I substituted soy flour for the wholemeal flour and used gluten free self raising flour...

I sprinkled rapadura sugar on top...

Rapadura is one natural alternative to white sugar that has a distinct caramel flavor and grainy texture...

It is considered to be a healthier option because it is less refined...

As it less processed rapadura retains a natural, caramel flavour...

It can be substituted for refined white sugar, which I am doing more and more...

Going into the oven...

Being a last minute cake I used tinned pears...how easy is that!!!

All out...

I even used store bought custard...easy peasy!!!

For the original recipe go over here...

My variation of Not Quite Nigella's Easy Pear Tea Cake...

    3/4 soy flour

   3/4C gluten free SR flour

  3/4C caster sugar

   1 egg, at room temperature

   125g unsalted melted butter

1t vanilla

  400g tinned pears, diced

   2T rapadura sugar

   icing sugar to serve

Oven at 180c

20cm springform tin, greased and lined

• Mix the 2 flours, sugar, butter, egg and vanilla in a bowl
• Press 3/4 of the mix into the base of the tin, it will be like a sticky, buttery dough.  Scatter the diced pears on top.  Then place small pieces of the dough on it in a patchwork pattern so that the pear is not entirely covered up.
• Sprinkle with the rapadura and bake for 40-50m.  Sieve some icing sugar on top.

Easy, easy...easy...I love it...Thanks so much Lorraine for this!!!