Eggless cider cake with pear and sultanas

Egg less cider cake with pear and sultanas

This is a very easy and quick to assemble cake. It is a pure pleasure to eat on a weekend with a cuppa enjoying the time off and then on a week day with a cuppa at work, remembering that there is always another weekend to come.

Inspired by Hugh F-W, was published in the guardian Cooking with cider recipes

Ingredients:

250g self-raising flour
125g cold butter cubed
60g muscovado sugar
125g sultanas
100ml apple cider
2 tbsp cider vinegar
1 large or 2 small pears peeled and sliced
1 - 2 tbsp demerara sugar

Let's do it:

Preheat the oven to 190C, grease your cake tin and line with a baking parchment. As I used the fluted tube tin I only greased it with a bit sunflower oil using a brush. In a food processor or using your good hands mix the flour and butter until reaches breadcrumbs consistency, next stir in sugar and sultanas. Separately mix cider with cider vinegar, pour into the dry ingredients and mix well but gently. Lastly add sliced pear again gently folding in. Bake 45 minutes or to the clean skewer.