Cardamom Cake with Whole Pears & White Chocolate
INGREDIENTS
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Makes 1 loaf cake (8-10 servings
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Ingredients
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For the Pears:
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3 medium-sized crisp, Bosc pears, peeled but whole, with the stem left on (Bosc pears hold their shape with the poaching and baking time, I could only find large ones)
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1 (750-ml) bottle dry white wine
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1 1/4 cups sugar
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4 cloves
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3 star anise pods
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8 cardamom pods
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2 cinnamon sticks
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For the Cake:
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14 tablespoons butter (1 1/2 sticks plus 2 tbsp) softened
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1 cup sugar
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4 eggs
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1 1/2 cups self-rising flour (If you don’t have self-rising flour, sift/whisk together 2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder with 3/4 teaspoon salt for 1 1/2 all purpose flour.
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1 generous tbsp ground cardamom
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pinch of salt
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And further:
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*3 oz white chocolate, in chunks (*I dusted with powdered sugar instead of using white chocolate)
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