This extra moist and flavorful Spiced Pear Coffee Cake is made with sour cream, fresh pears and a well balanced combination of spices. The sweet crumb topping has a lively mandarin citrus flavor from the added zest. A divine cake to enjoy with your coffee on a beautiful Fall morning.
Extra Moist and Flavorful Spiced Pear Coffee Cake
Let’s take a break from apples and focus on pears and make a pear coffee cake. I have made the most delicious, moist and flavorful Spiced Pear Coffee Cake that I would love to share with you. There are countless recipes out there for apple desserts. Apple pies, apple crumb, apple cake, apple this and apple that. Sure apples are fabulous and there is a lot of variety and opportunity to make many different recipes with apples, however, pears are not so popular.
Apples and pears are harvested at the same time. Most farms have both apple trees and pear trees, but the apple trees outnumber the pear threes by far. And, everyone goes “apple picking” and no one goes “pear picking”. Honestly, it makes me a bit sad how underrated pears are.
Not here at Thyme of Season! This cake did not have a chance. Truth be told, I have been baking a lot more than I usually do since staring this blog and I just can’t have all these baked goods around. So, I have been sharing. Sharing my recipes with my family, friends and neighbors has two great benefits. First, I don’t eat everything and second, I get feedback. I like feedback and I take it for what it is. Not everything I create makes it onto the blog. Some recipes are just not worth sharing. However, this Spiced Pear Coffee Cake definitely is!
spiced pear coffee cake
How to make the cake
Ingredients - For the Cake
- 1 ½ cups flour
- 1 cup sour cream
- 2 cups pears – peeled and cubed
- ¾ cup whole milk – room temperature
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup white sugar
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs – room temperature
- 2 tablespoons butter – melted
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon orange extract
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon cardamom
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Ingredients - For the Crumb Topping
- ½ cup flour
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup butter – room temperature
- Zest of one mandarin or small orange
Directions
Pre-heat oven to 350. Grease 9 inch spring form pan and set aside.
Peel and cut pears and set aside.
Stir the topping together with a fork until crumbles form, set aside.
Place flour, brown sugar, white sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, ginger, nutmeg, cardamom and salt into a large mixing bowl and whisk ingredients until fully combined.
In a separate mixing bowl add sour cream, milk, oil, melted butter, eggs, lemon juice, vanilla and orange extract. Whisk together until blended.
Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and gently mix together. DO NOT overmix.
Add the pears to the batter and lightly fold in.
Place half the batter into the spring form pan and add half the crumb topping. Add remaining batter to the pan and top with remaining crumb topping.
Bake for about 45-50 minutes or until knife comes out clean.
Let cool completely before serving. Serve with caramel sauce and whipped cream if desired.
Looking for more Pear recipes?
Try our Nutty Pear Cocktail.
Spiced Pear Coffee Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 ½ cups flour
- 1 cup sour cream
- 2 cups pears – peeled and cubed
- ¾ cup whole milk – room temperature
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup white sugar
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs – room temperature
- 2 tablespoons butter – melted
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon orange extract
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon cardamom
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Topping
- ½ cup flour
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup butter – room temperature
- Zest of one mandarin or small orange
Optional
- whipped cream
- caramel sauce
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350. Grease 9 inch spring form pan and set aside.
- Peel and cut pears and set aside.
- Stir the topping together with a fork until crumbles form, set aside.
- Place flour, brown sugar, white sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, ginger, nutmeg, cardamom and salt into a large mixing bowl and whisk ingredients until fully combined.
- In a separate mixing bowl add sour cream, milk, oil, melted butter, eggs, lemon juice, vanilla and orange extract. Whisk together until blended.
- Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and gently mix together. DO NOT overmix.
- Add the pears to the batter and lightly fold in.
- Place half the batter into the spring form pan and add half the crumb topping. Add remaining batter to the pan and top with remaining crumb topping.
- Bake for about 45-50 minutes or until knife comes out clean.
- Let cool completely before serving. Serve with caramel sauce and whipped cream if desired.
