• 200g soft butter
  • 100g sugar
  • 100g soft brown sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 200g  flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 2 balls stem ginger in syrup, drained and chopped
  • 2 pears, peeled, cored and roughly chopped
  • handful of sultanas
  • 2 tbsp ground almonds
  • 2 tsp spice (ginger / cinnamon / allspice etc)
  1. Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3.
  2. chop the pear and mix with the sultanas, almonds, stem ginger and spices.
  3. Beat the butter and sugars together until pale,
  4. gradually stir in the eggs
  5. Fold the flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt into the mix,
  6. stir through the pear mixture
  7. Pour the mixture into the square silicone pan and smooth the surface,
  8. bake for 1 hr – 1 hr 10 mins or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
  9. Allow to cool in the tin.
  10. Serve warm with cream, or allow to cool completely.