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Pear Streusel Cake

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Course Dessert

Ingredients
  

Pears:

  • 2 medium pears peeled and cored, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice

Streusel topping:

  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup light brown sugar packed
  • 1/2 cup butter cold, cut in small pieces
  • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1/3 cup chopped pecans I didn’t have any on hand

Cake:

  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup milk whole or low fat
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 1/2 cup butter melted

Instructions
 

  • Grease and flour a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan. Preheat oven to 350°.
  • Toss chopped pears with lemon juice in a small bowl; set aside.
  • In another bowl, combine streusel ingredients, except pecans, with a fork until crumbly, or pulse with food processor. Stir in pecans, if using.
  • In a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; stir to blend.
  • In another bowl, whisk eggs and stir in milk, vanilla, and butter.
  • Fold the egg mixture into the flour mixture and combine just until the dry ingredients are moistened.
  • Spoon half of the batter into prepared loaf pan; spread out to cover the bottom.
  • Sprinkle batter with half of the pears and half of the streusel.
  • Spoon the remaining batter evenly over streusel, spreading carefully to cover.
  • Sprinkle with half of the remaining streusel, the remaining chopped pears and then the remaining streusel.
  • Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted into center of cake comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Run a knife carefully around sides; invert the cake onto plate. Turn the cake, streusel side up, onto a rack and let cool on a rack completely. Enjoy.