Thursday, November 21, 2013

Chestnut and pear cake





From last week's FFWD chestnut and pear soup, I had both chestnuts and pears leftover.  Accordingly, what is a girl to do other than to make baked goods with the leftovers.  I chose to make this chestnut cake with pear.  I didn't have fresh pears, but tinned pears worked fine.

This really is a delicious cake.   It is light and spongy, and is perfectly delicious without the chocolate icing suggested in the recipe.  Here's a peek inside the cake:

 
 
If you find yourself with some chestnut puree that you don't know what to do with, you can't go past this chestnut pear cake.

5 comments:

Kari said...

An excellent use of left over ingredients! I imagine this would be beautifully moist.

Unknown said...

I can totally see it with chocolate on top... delicious!

yummychunklet said...

Resourceful and tasty way to use up leftovers!

TeaLady said...

Now, THIS looks good.

Johanna GGG said...

this looks delicious - I now feel bad that I threw out two pears yesterday - wish I had been as resourceful