Pear Cake

🧂 Ingredients

• ¼ cup all purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
• ¼ teaspoons cinnamon
• 3 tablespoons butter chilled
• ¼ walnuts

  chopped
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3 ripe pears – should be ripe but firm

  not mushy (½ of one pear will be used for dicing, the remaining halves will be placed on top of coffee cake)
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• ½ teaspoons baking powder
• ¼ teaspoons salt
• ¼ cup butter

  room temperature
• ⅓ cup sugar
• 1 large egg

  room temperature
• ¼ cup sour cream
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• ⅓ cup peeled and diced pear
• 8 oz package cream cheese

  room temperature
• ¼ cup sugar
• 1 egg

  room temperature
• 1 tablespoon all purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour one 9 inch springform pan.
• 2 Prepare Streusel Topping: Combine flour, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and
  cinnamon in a small mixing bowl. Add butter and use a fork or pastry cutter to
  blend in butter until mixture resembles wet sand. Stir in nuts.
• 3 Prepare Cinnamon Sugar: Combine all ingredients and mix in a small bowl.
• 4 Prepare Cream Cheese Filling; In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar
  until smooth. Add egg, flour, and vanilla and mix just until blended.
• 5 Peel, cut in half, core, and de-stem the pears.
• 6 Dice one half of one pear for the cake batter.
• 7 Lay remaining halved pears cut side down on a cutting board. Slice each pear
  half in slices from top to bottom (refer to picture in post if needed).
• 8 Cover pears with plastic wrap until ready to use to prevent browning.
• 9 Place flour, salt, baking powder, and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Whisk to
  combine. Set aside.
• 10 In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
• 11 With mixer on low speed add in the egg and sour cream. Add vanilla and mix on
  medium speed until blended. Scrape down sides of bowl as needed.
• 12 With mixer on low speed add in flour mixture, mix just until blended.
• 13 Stir in diced pears.
• 14 Pour batter into prepared pan. Batter is thick, use an offset spatula to spread
  out in pan, making sure to spread batter all the way to edges of pan.
• 15 Pour cream cheese filling on top of cake.
• 16 Using a knife, slide it under the sliced pear halves and gently place them on
  top of the cream cheese filling one by one. Make sure to place the thicker end
  of the pear towards the edge of the pan and the skinnier part towards the center
  of the pan. NOTE: Pears may slightly sink into cream cheese filling, this is
  fine.
• 17 Sprinkle streusel between the pears and in the center of the cake. NOTE: It’s
  okay if a little of the streusel covers the pears.
• 18 Sprinkle top of the cake with cinnamon sugar making sure to coat pears
  generously.
• 19 Place springform pan on a cookie sheet for baking.
• 20 Bake 60 min to 65 min. The center should not be jiggly, baked cream cheese
  filling will bounce back when gently pressed on.
• 21 Let cool 30-45 minutes, edges of the cake should release from the sides of the
  pan as it cools. To be safe run a knife around the edge of the pan before
  removing the cake from the pan.
• 22 Store any leftovers in the refrigerator.
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