pear cardamon cake~

Cardamom Cake with Whole Pears & White Chocolate

1 loaf cake (8-10 servings)

Ingredients

For the Pears:

3 medium-sized crisp, Bosc pears, peeled but whole, with the stem left on (Bosc pears hold their shape with the poaching and baking time, I could only find large ones)

1 (750-ml) bottle dry white wine

1 1/4 cups sugar

4 cloves

3 star anise pods

8 cardamom pods

2 cinnamon sticks

strain and reduce liquid for sauce with cake, or check out marys new cocktail~

For the Cake:

14 tablespoons butter softened

1 cup sugar

4 eggs

1 1/2 cups self-rising flour (If you don’t have self-rising flour, sift/whisk together 2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder with 3/4 teaspoon salt for 1 1/2 all purpose flour. There is a handy conversion calculator here.)

1 generous tbsp ground cardamom

pinch of salt

And further:

*3 oz white chocolate, in chunks

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