Get yourself to your kitchen, pronto. I mean it. This cake is so good. What is it?
Fresh Pear & Apple Cake with Maple Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting.
First, you take lots of pretty photos of your picturesque pears. Then, you peel and chop those babies up. Add apples if you don’t have enough pears. I used three pears and two apples. Mix a bunch of sugar with the chopped up fruit and let is sit and marry for an hour. Go and do something for an hour. I vacuumed.
Next, your gonna measure and mix your dry ingredients. Then crack four eggs and separate the whites from the yolks. Or the yolks from the whites, which ever you prefer. You can decide what you want to do with those yolks…just don’t throw them away. That would be wasteful.
Mix up your wet with your dry. Bake. Cool. Whip up some frosting. I taste-tested my recipe until it was perfect. Not too cream cheesy, just right. Now frost your cake and top with chopped nuts. I used walnuts. They’re good for you.
Look! It’s a piece of cake on my freshly painted chair. Remember, it was blue just a few short days ago?
That’s it. If you like, you can carry your piece of cake around and take pictures of it, or you can go ahead and eat it straight away.
Fresh Pear & Apple Cake with Maple Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients:
4 cups peeled and chopped pears and apples
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 egg whites
1/2 cup canola oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup chopped walnuts
Directions:
1. Mix pears, apples, and sugars and let sit for one hour.
2. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Spray 13×9 pan with cooking spray and line with parchment paper.
3. Mix egg whites, oil, and vanilla. Add to fruit mixture.
4. Whisk flour, salt, baking soda, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and cinnamon. Stir in the fruit mixture. Pour batter into prepared pan.
5. Bake at 325 degrees for 45 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely before frosting.
6. Frost and top with chopped nuts.
Maple Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients:
1 8 oz. package cream cheese
1/2 stick unsalted butter
1/2 cup pure maple syrup
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Directions:
1. Soften butter and cream cheese.
2. Whip all ingredients until soft and creamy.
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Hi Ashley, Nice to meet a new visitor to my blog. Thanks for the nice comments. I love this time of year and I wish the weather in OH would stay like this even longer. However…. rain and sleet and ice will be here soon enuf… ICK
I want to try this cake- it definitely says autumn to me! Took a quickie look at some previous posts. What a pretty blue color for those chairs. But white is nice, too.
hope you will stop by again if you ever have time.
:-) Sue
YUM! You have some great recipes on your blog. I so appreciate your great interest in crafting, cooking, sewing and learning those skills on your own! Thanks for dropping by my blog today! PAM
Oh, this looks/sounds/smells (yes, I can smell it through the computer) AMAZING!! I’m going to get on this one THIS WEEK!! Thanks for sharing! (And I love the way the chair turned out!)
This looks fantastic and I am loving the artsy photo of the cake in the chair! It’s like double eye candy. Delish.
Oh my! That looks and sounds so good. Thanks for sharing.
Good gravy I love your blog . And that cake … gotta make it. And your photos…it’s all too good to be true! Lovely ~
Robin
All Things Heart and Home
Ashley-You have been busy! The chair turned out great! I am still working on the six of mine–ughh. I think maple frosting may be one of my new favorite things. I made pumpkin/s spice cupcakes with maple frosting last night. I’ll have to give the cake a try too!
Okay – that looks SO YUMMY and sounds so good. I.must.bake.tomorrow! Love the pictures. I would probably eat one then cut another for pictures. I don’t think I could wait. Love the chair!
Thanks so much for sharing! :)
Have a fabulous weekend!
R
WoW I got sidetracked by your Itsy shop! Fantastic, I wanted to eat that Blueberry and cream barrette! I booked marked you so I can come back and shop! Fantastic looking phtos of your pear cake too.. .Yummy! Have a wonderful week end!
~Really Rainey
Hey, AShley, you are making me hungry with this one! What gorgeous pics, girl it looks right out of a foodie magazine. And I bet it tastes as good as it looks. Delish, right?! Thank you for joining the party.
And I have to ask you what kind of camera you have?! Those are some really gorgeous pics. I may have to upgrade one of these days.
oleo is margarine :) My much younger sister in law didn’t know either!
I’m drooling over here! I’d love to feature this in one of my “Readers Rock” post where I feature my favorite reader finds! Email me if that’s cool! I give you complete credit and link your site!
bluecricketdesign at gmail dot com
oh such gorgeous pics and fab recipe~
This looks and sounds absolutely scrumptious. I loved that last Shaker-like photo with the cake on the seat of the chair. Your picture of the pears was also stellar. Thanks for sharing this with us. Have a wonderful day.
Hi Ashley
Thanks for stopping by over my way. Always great to meet other bloggers. Well I have to say although this cake looks and sounds delicious, I can’t get past your beautiful photography. Just gorgeous ever image, and the red pears!! I don’t think I have ever seen a red pear! Lovely post. Have a great weekend.
This cake looks amazing! I can’t wait to give this recipe a try. Thanks for sharing!
Oh. my. word. That looks amazing!!! Thank you so much for sharing your recipe. :) Thanks for stopping by!!
Oh dear me, Ashely – serious drool over here lookin’ at that cake! Going to attempt it. And loving your chair!
Blessings,
Marie
Your cake looks so delicious. Very pretty photography. Love the newly updated chair :)
Looks yummy! I must try your recipe…
W/ maple syrup? Not what I know here in Sweden…
Your chair photo & a plate of goodie? I have almost the same shot…
What a coincidence.
Happy Sunday.
PS
Just blown by net & found your blog. Very nice & lots of inspirations. I must visit you often.
TY,
/R
That cake looks delicious and it just so happens I have all the ingredients! Thanks for sharing.
First time to your blog… it’s beautiful, smells wonderful, looks appealing and heck those chairs in blue… well I love blue, but that’s just me.
Happy MET Monday
Love Claudie
xo
Oh my! This was not a good post to read when my tummy is hungry. I want to make this now! Thanks for sharing the great pictures and recipe with us.
Oh my. I’m cleaning up drool on my keyboard. Will be trying this delish looking treat! And your chair looks fab.u.lous.
Pop over to my place for my first ever giveaway if you’d like :o)
peace, cindy
Okay, my mouth is watering. That looks yummmmmmy! I’m going to have to try this. Thanks for sharing. I think I’m going to gain 10 pounds just looking at all the delish food and recipes being posted lately.
What a cute post! I love the picture of the cake on the chair! So clever! I feel like it is waiting for me!
Ok, so the food looks amazing – I can practially smell it through the screen, but the photos – they’re impeccably styled. Gorgeous! Thank you so VERY much for this, it’s on the table Sunday for the soup and bread party. !
Beautiful chair–really sweet–I love it!! The cake looks scrumptious, but it is not on my diet ;-)
It’s so nice to meet you. Thanks for the wonderful cake recipe. I love pears and will try this soon~ ~Ahrisha~ ~
Well, I have to say IT LOOKS GOOOOODDD!
I was going to try my Halloween cupcakes so I could feature them on the site… mmm… am kinda sidetracked now ha ha
This is the first time I’ve been to your page, I found the link on another friend’s page, but honestly don’t remember which one (too many windows open on the computer at one time??)
What a great place! I’ll be baaaaaack!! *lol*
Truly, sounds like a terrific recipe, I’m going to put it on my list — do you have any perfect carrot cake recipes? (just got 40 pounds of carrots today from a neighbor, couldn’t say no, could I??)
Thank you for a wonderful website to come back to, I’m sure I will make it a weekly habit from now on~ (school, etc.)
That looks VERY YUMMY!
How nice that someone else is featuring it!!! Good for YOU!
ENJOY!
Fifi
You’re amazing…::Sigh::… I wish I had your imagination and talent. I bet your house is so cute! Post some pictures, why don’t ya! :-)
And I bet Damien Loooves all that wonderful food you make!