Dessert

Spiced Pear & Poppy Seed Cake with Crème Fraîche

Name: Spiced Pear & Poppy Seed Cake with Crème Fraîche
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: 100g unsalted butter, softened; 80g caster sugar; 1 large egg; 120g all-purpose flour; ½ tsp baking powder; ¼ tsp salt; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; ¼ tsp freshly grated nutmeg; pinch of ground clove; 2 tbsp poppy seeds; 2 tbsp whole milk; 2 medium pears (Conference or Comice), peeled, halved, cores scooped; 120ml water; 2 tbsp honey; 1 cinnamon stick; 120ml crème fraîche for serving

A warm, tender cake studded with poppy seeds and fragrant with cinnamon and nutmeg, topped with soft poached pears in a light spiced syrup. A dollop of cold crème fraîche provides tangy contrast.

958calper serving 14gprotein 139gcarbs 59gfat 10min prep 15min cook 2serves

✓ Macros from a nutrition database · per serving · developed by The Delicious Kitchen with AI assistance, not independently kitchen-tested · how we calculate this