Simple Baked Goods

Pear Spice Bundt Cake

This recipe is in the Simple Baked Goods section of the book.

Hopefully it goes that way

First up making syrup to cook down some pears

Guys, I burnt the sugar!

This is the first time I have done that since starting this project

Full disclosure, I was preoccupied with getting the nine million spices measured and took my eyes off the prize – Upside it was only 1/3 cup of sugar

Ok trying again and it goes well

I am waiting for the pears to cool and measuring out the rest

Ok so the rest is hopefully uneventful…beat butter and sugar, add the eggs, add the flour.

There is a lot of batter here…I hope my Bundt pan will hold it all

So, this is not the Simple Baked Good that Martha proclaims it to be

But it’s not the books fault. We are in school shutdown and self-isolation right now and I am a little distracted with the kids home for such an extended period of time

There is too much batter and it spilled a little when I rotated the pan at the half way point

I should have put a cookie sheet under the Bundt pan from the get go, but I didn’t – distracted!

So once the burning-of-batter-on-the-floor-of-my- oven smell became prominent I got some off the oven floor and put a cookie sheet under it – but I think it is a bit far gone

Open the windows!

This needed an extra 30 minutes to cook

Things do not look good

Oh my gosh – that escalated

Here is what we are looking at

It got stuck in the pan, so I waited a while and peeled back where it was stuck to the non-greased section of the pan and it half came out

After some coaxing, the rest fell out

I think there are too many pears, it is very, very moist. Maybe too moist

It is almost falling apart

The cream cheese glaze and pear chips are listed as optional and I am not wasting good cream cheese on this mess

Ok so I have given it some time to relax it is not terrible – I would not serve it to anyone outside my house based on looks but it is not as tragic as I first thought