Autumn cake with caramelized pears and walnuts – recipe from Maruška Veg

Directions:

• 1

  First bake the cake. Line a 24-cm cake pan with baking paper and grease the paper with oil and flour it. Mix all of the dry ingredients together in a bowl and all of the wet ingredients in a separate bowl. Then mix them together and pour them into the cake pan. Bake at 170 °C for 20 minutes. Let the cake cool.

• 2

  Toast the walnuts on an ungreased pan for about 5 minutes. Add 2T. of the maple syrup and then leave the walnuts and maple syrup together in the pan for a few more minutes. Peel, core and dice the pears. Toast the pears in the same manner as the walnuts. Put them on a plate and let them cool.

• 3

  Whip the cream with the maple syrup and cinnamon. Frost the cake with the cream.

• 4

  Decorate with pears, walnuts and gingerbread cookies.