Orange Cake with Pear Cream


Servings: 4
Prep time: 25
Cooking time: 25
INGREDIENTS
  • - 1 pear decana
  • - 1 orange
  • - 1 egg
  • - 60 g of white flour
  • - 50 g of powdered sugar
  • - 40 g of cornstarch
  • - 5 g of baking powder
  • - ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • - 1 clove
  • - 2 tablespoons of pasteurized cow's milk, semi-skimmed
  • - 2 tbsp sunflower oil
  • - unsweetened cocoa powder
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Grate the orange rind and squeeze the juice.
  2. Whisk the egg with the icing sugar with an electric whisk for 5-10 minutes to create a froth with a volume tripled at least 3 times. Then add the flour, cornstarch, baking powder and cinnamon powder sifted, zest, oil and milk.
  3. Fill a possibly rectangular cake pan of 18 x 24 cm, oiled and floured (or molds of the preferred forms). Bake at 180 ° C for 25 minutes (which are 10-15 minutes for small molds).
  4. Peel the pears, cut into slices, season with the crushed clove and cook for 10 minutes. Then beat getting a cream.
  5. Divide the cake into squares, wet the base with the orange juice and sprinkle with a little cocoa, then arrange on dishes dusted with powdered sugar and fill with cream.