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Mulled wine and pear sticky ginger cake recipe
Photo: David Holifield

Mulled wine and pear sticky ginger cake recipe

16 ingredients 45 min + 30 min 12 people openrecipes

Let your pears absorb the spices and richness of mulled wine, then pack them into a cake! You should enjoy this with a glass of - surprise, surprise - mulled wine.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

894
Calories
22g
Protein
19g
Fat
155g
Carbs

Counts 11 of 13 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 11 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Pear 1 medium (178g) 101
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Orange 1 medium (131g) 62
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Clove 1 tsp ground (2g) 7
Almond 1 almond (1.2g) 7
Cinnamon 1 tsp ground (2.6g) 6
Ginger 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) 2
Star Anise not in our table 0
Syrup not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 4 whole cloves
  • 1 star anise
  • 4 medium-sized firm pears, peeled, cored and quartered
  • 600 red wine
  • ml caster sugar
  • 1 (heaped) demerara sugar
  • tbsp butter, softened - plus extra for greasing
  • 1 soft brown sugar
  • tbsp orange, grated zest only
  • 225 large eggs
  • g self-raising flour, sieved
  • 225 baking powder
  • g ground ginger
  • 0.5 ground almonds
  • 4 lump preserved ginger (in syrup), finely chopped

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By lovefood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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