{"id":14764,"date":"2014-09-23T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T07:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/?p=14764"},"modified":"2014-09-21T17:38:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T00:38:01","slug":"guest-post-cake-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/guest-post-cake-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: Cake Spy \/\/ Brown Sugar-Ginger Cream Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hey y&#8217;all! Jennie and Corelyn are off adventuring on the east coast for Jennie&#8217;s wedding. While they&#8217;re gone, please enjoy some guest posts from our favorite bloggers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This post is from our friend Jessie, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakespy.com\/\">Cake Spy<\/a>, who we met when we were at the Bake for Good workshop weekend with King Arthur Flour! She is sweet, funny, and makes a mean dessert. We hope you&#8217;ll subscribe to her blog and love her posts as much as we do!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pearcake2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14766\" src=\"http:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pearcake2.jpg\" alt=\"Brown Sugar Ginger Pear Cake | Cake Spy, on Garlic, My Soul\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pearcake2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pearcake2-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With my first attempt at baking from the new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0767916298?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=cakespycom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0767916298\">Seasonal Fruit Desserts by Deborah Madison<\/a>, I managed to do something rather unlikely: <strong>I made a dessert which contained absolutely no fruit, seasonal or otherwise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What I did, of course, was I flipped right to the back of the book where there is a section entitled &#8220;cakes to go with fruit&#8221;&#8211;and I chose the most rich and delicious-sounding one, the Brown Sugar-Ginger Cream Cake, which was described as having a &#8220;poundcake-like personality&#8221;. Sold! I baked it up, using part almond flour for fun (it made the texture slightly more coarse, I think, but not in such a bad way), and it came out beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>But how to top it? Flipping to another section of the book, I came across a recipe for Candied Five-Spice Pecans, suggested as a great accompaniment to ripe pears; they sounded good, so I made a batch and put them on top of the cake, completely ignoring that pesky and vaguely healthy-sounding pear part. And oh, are they divine on top of the buttery, rich cake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pearcake1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14767\" src=\"http:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pearcake1.jpg\" alt=\"Brown Sugar Ginger Pear Cake | Cake Spy, on Garlic, My Soul\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pearcake1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pearcake1-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But ultimately I realized it wouldn&#8217;t necessarily be honoring the book&#8217;s, ah, entire mission, to not include fruit, so I sliced up a ripe Washington pear in a skillet with 2 tablespoons of butter and 3 tablespoons of brown sugar, stirring frequently over medium heat until the liquid had reduced and the pear had been battered into sweet, buttery submission.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what? The fruit made it even better, and made me feel a whole lot better about eating it for breakfast (It has fruit! And nuts! It&#8217;s practically health food!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pearcake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14768\" src=\"http:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pearcake.jpg\" alt=\"Brown Sugar Ginger Pear Cake | Cake Spy, on Garlic, My Soul\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakespy.com\/blog\/2010\/5\/26\/great-pear-ing-brown-sugar-ginger-cream-cake-with-five-spice.html\">Check out the recipe on Cake Spy.<\/a>\u00a0Let us know if you decided to make this and what you change if anything to make it even more divine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey y&#8217;all! Jennie and Corelyn are off adventuring on the east coast for Jennie&#8217;s wedding. 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