Easy Ginger & Pear Honey Cakes for Bonfire Night
Autumn pears, fragrant honey and warming ginger come together for an easy bonfire night bake. These ginger & pear almond honey cakes are not only delicious, but are easily portable. They’re the perfect antidote to overhyped Halloween. They can be eaten whilst watching the bonfire flames dance and the Catherine wheels spin. No tricks, just treats.
These almond honey cakes came about as a result of a failed attempt at making almond nut butter. I will be posting about this and its serendipitous love child later this month. Suffice it to say, the end result was totally worth it.
Ginger & Pear Honey Cakes
I used some of my nut butter to make these ginger pear cakes, but have given a slightly easier method here so you don’t have to make my version of nut butter first. I was putting my new Optimum G2.3 platinum series induction blender through its paces, but my trusty Optimum 9200A would have worked equally well.
The cakes, whilst not entirely sugar free, are made with a modest amount of honey and a small addition of crystallised ginger. As well as being low in sugar, they are low in fat too with only one tablespoon of coconut oil.
The pears helped to sweeten the cakes, as well as giving them a nice texture. Almonds are always a good addition to a cake in my book. A little warming ginger combines beautifully with the other flavours and keeps the cockles of the heart glowing in the cold night air.
Other Pear Recipes You Might Like
- Caramelised pear, honey carob cake
- Chocolate pear upside-down cake
- Green smoothie bowl
- Pear almond butter
- Poached pears in white wine
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If you like this recipe for easy gingered pear almond honey cakes why not pin it for later?
Ginger & Pear Almond Honey Cakes – The Recipe
Easy Gingered Pear Almond Honey Cakes
Ingredients
- 75 g whole almonds
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- 3 small pears cored but not peeled
- 3 tbsp honey
- 1 large egg I used a duck egg
- 125 g golden wholemeal flour or half wholemeal, half plain
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 25 g crystallised ginger chopped
- 1 tsp demerara sugar
Instructions
- Grind the almonds in a blender or food processor (I used my power blender).75 g whole almonds
- Add two of the pears along with the coconut oil and blend for a minute or two or until the pears are pureed.3 small pears, 1 tbsp coconut oil
- Add the honey and eggs and blend again until well mixed.3 tbsp honey, 1 large egg
- Sift the dry ingredients into a bowl. Make a well in the centre, then pour in the nut batter and gently mix in stirring from the inside outwards.125 g golden wholemeal flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp ground ginger
- Stir in the crystallised ginger.25 g crystallised ginger
- Divide the mixture between 9 cupcake cases.
- Thinly slice the remaining pear and arrange on top of the cakes.
- Sprinkle a little of the sugar over each one.1 tsp demerara sugar
- Bake at 180℃ (160℃ fan, 350℉, Gas 4) for 20 minutes or until the cakes are well risen and a skewer inserted comes out clean.
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Sharing
I’m sending these ginger & pear almond honey cakes off to Jo’s Kitchen and Lavender and Lovage for this month’s Tea Time Treats. The theme is Halloween and Bonfire Night treats.
These easy bonfire night cakes also go to Bake of the Week at Casa Costello
Oh wow, Choclette, these sound amazing – I love all the ingredients and I especially like that they are low in sugar. Definitely pinning these on my must make board. Eb x
Gosh, where did these spring from? I’d completely forgotten about them. But now you come to mention them … 🙂
I like cakes but not when they’re too sweet, so these sound great for me!
Yay! Unless I know I’m in for a really sweet hit, like fudge, I prefer to taste the flavours of my cakes and biscuits and not be overwhelmed with sugar.
These look delicious! Thank you for entering #TeaTimeTreats!
Thank you Jo, they are great cakes for Autumn 🙂
Oh the flavours in these sound absolutely divine. Ginger, pear, almond AND honey?! Just gorgeous!!
Thanks Becca. Autumn is such a good excuse for making lots of delicious bakes and comfort food.
These look delicious, so good that they are low sugar and fat. I’m with you I love a little almond in my cakes. GG
Thanks GG. It certainly makes a change to be able to eat cake and not feel bad about it. Mind you, I’m not sure I ever feel bad about it 😉
These would be perfect for my morning coffee – I could pop a few straight in!!
That of course is the trouble with cakes in the house 😉
It wouldn’t be Bonfire Night around here without some sort of ginger treat and these look just perfect! Thanks also for mentioning my Pear & Pecan Cake aswell as joining in with #BakeoftheWeek – Great to have you on board.
Thanks Helen. I’d join in more often if I could but remember!
Like you I love ginger in cakes and these look so delicious. My mouth is watering just looking at them!
Thank you, that’s the best complement anyone can make 🙂
Pear, ginger and almond? I bet these taste incredible. They certainly look like they do!
They only came about because I couldn’t manage to make nut butter Aimee, but I don’t regret it, they were delicious.
They look really delicious Choclette! 😀 Love the flavour combination.
Thanks Nadia. I was quite pleased with them, especially as I’d no intention of baking at all when I started.
Perfect autumnal baking, these sound so good – I bet they smell amazing!
They were amazingly good considering they were a by product of a mistake.
Pear and Almond! HELLO!! These look rather fabulous don’t they. I love what you write about The transatlantic excess of Halloween. I mean I love Halloween but of course there will always be a place in my heart for Bonfire Night
Well that was a CTism, he’s even more anti than me. But I love Bonfire night. I’ll let you have one or two of these for Halloween though, just because I love you Dom.
Nice! I’m definitely on a bit of a pear thing at the moment, so these are right up my street. Perfect for the season xx
And so easy to make them gluten free too Kate 🙂
What a lovely treat for bonfire night. I love baking with pears they add a lovely flavour to cakes.
Thanks Jemma. Pears give quite a gentle flavour, but a good one.
A fantastic seasonal bake. Pears are so delicious with honey and almonds, love the slices of pear on top of the cakes.
Yes, they’d have looked a bit boring without the pears I reckon.
What a lovely idea, beautiful ingredients, perfectly combined. Thanks too for sharing my upside down cake
Thanks Janice. It’s amazing what comes out of other failed recipes 😉
What a lovely combination of ingredients. I am sure the cakes would have tasted amazing.
Thanks Nayna. The cakes went down very well indeed 🙂
They are fantastic, Choclette. I love that you made this low fat, low sugar and low calories..absolutely my kind of tea time treat.
Thanks Angie. I’m not sure almonds can be classed as low calorie, but it is all good fat 🙂