Almond, apple and pear sponge
- Published: 28 Feb 09
- Updated: 18 Mar 24
A fragrant sponge packed with apples and pears and flavoured with rose, then topped with an almond sponge. For extra decadence, serve with clotted cream.
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Serves 4-6
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Takes 25 minutes to make and 50 minutes to cook
Ingredients
- 2 (about 500g) Bramley apples
- 500g British pears
- Juice of ½ lemon
- 85g caster sugar
- 1 tbsp rosewater
For the topping
- 115g butter, softened
- 115g caster sugar, plus extra for sprinkling
- 100g self-raising flour
- 75g ground almonds
- 3 medium free-range eggs, beaten
- ½ tsp almond extract
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°c/fan160°c/gas 4. Peel, core and chop the apples and pears and put into a bowl with the lemon juice. Add the sugar and the rosewater and mix thoroughly, then tip into a 1.5-litre pie dish.
- Make the topping. In a large bowl, beat the butter and the sugar until pale and fluffy. In another bowl, mix together the flour and almonds. Beat a third of the eggs into the butter, then a third of the flour mixture. Repeat until all the ingredients are used up. Add the almond extract and spread over the fruit – it doesn’t matter if there are a few holes. Bake for 50 minutes or until the topping has risen into a golden sponge. Sprinkle with extra sugar and serve warm or at room temperature.
- Recipe from March 2009 Issue
Nutrition
- Calories
- 518kcals
- Fat
- 26.4g (11.5g saturated)
- Protein
- 8.5g
- Carbohydrates
- 66.1g (50.9g sugars)
- Salt
- 0.6g
delicious. tips
You can use concord, comice or conference pears to make this recipe.
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very easy to make my family love it. Try using coconut instead of almonds and adding a teaspoon of vanilla essence