Old-Fashioned Pear Cake
A delicious, moist pear-packed cake, perfect for Christmas!
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups vegetable oil
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup pecans, finely chopped
- 2 cups pears, (recommend canned in heavy syrup, approx 1 ½ cans) chopped and drained (reserve juice)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 eggs
Glaze
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons syrup from the pears
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325
- In a large mixing bowl, combine oil, sugar, and eggs.
- Beat until creamy.
- In a medium sized mixing bowl, sift together flour, salt, cinnamon, and baking soda.
- Stir dry ingredients into creamed mixture until smooth.
- Add vanilla.
- Fold in pears and pecans.
- Pour mixture into a well-greased bundt or tube pan.
- Bake 1 hour and 15 minutes. A toothpick inserted into the center should come out clean.
- Pour glaze onto a cool cake.
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