Recipe: Perfect Pear, Almond and Semolina Cake

Pear, Almond and Semolina Cake.

To make Pear, Almond and Semolina Cake you need 10 ingredients and just 12 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients

1. You need of ripe, juicy pears.
2. It's of margarine or softened butter.
3. You need of soft light brown sugar, any lumps squashed.
4. Prepare of self-raising flour (or all purpose flour + 1/2 tsp baking powder).
5. It's of semolina.
6. It's of baking soda.
7. It's of eggs.
8. You need of almond essence.
9. Prepare of flaked almonds.
10. Prepare of squeeze of lemon juice.

Pear, Almond and Semolina Cake method

1. Heat oven to 180 C..
2. Grease and line a 9*9 inch square cake tin with baking paper.
3. Peel, quarter, core and place pears into a bowl half filled with water with a squeeze of lemon juice in it..
4. Beat together the margarine and sugar, until the graininess of the sugar is gone..
5. Beat in eggs one at a time.
6. Mix in flour, baking soda and semolina.
7. Drain and dry the pears..
8. Mix in the almond essence and the pears.
9. Scrape all the batter into the cake pan and spread it out to the edges and flatten it out as best you can..
10. Sprinkle over the flaked almonds.
11. Bake for 30-35 minutes.
12. Allow to cool in the tin for five minutes at least. Can be eaten warm or cold..