Marbled box cake with pears, ginger and cream cheese freezing

AUTHOR
Rachel Vazquez
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 2
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 18
  • 1 Lemon
  • 2 small ripe pears
  • 15 g pickled or candied ginger
  • 200 g Butter or margarine
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 200 g Sugar
  • 1 package Vanillin sugar
  • 4 Eggs (size M)
  • 400 g Flour
  • 1 package Baking Powder
  • 4-5 Tbsp Milk
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Cocoa powder
  • 300 g Double cream cream cheese
  • 100 g Icing sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour

Directions

  1. 1

    Halve the lemon and squeeze the juice. Peel and quarter the pears and remove the core. Dice pear quarters finely and sprinkle with 1 tbsp lemon juice. Chop ginger finely

  2. 2

    Cream fat, salt, sugar and vanilla sugar. Stir in the eggs one by one. Mix flour and baking powder, alternating with the milk. Halve the dough. Stir cocoa and ginger into one half and pear cubes into the other half. Grease a box form (25 cm long; 1 1/4 litre capacity) and dust with flour. First put the light, then the dark dough into the tin, pull it through spirally with a fork. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for 60-70 minutes (stick test)

  3. 3

    Take out the cake and let it cool down for about 15 minutes. Turn onto a cake rack and let it cool down

  4. 4

    Cream the cream cheese, icing sugar and 3 tbsp. lemon juice and spread loosely on the cold cake. Refrigerate the cake for another 30 minutes.

  5. 5

    Waiting time approx. 1 hour

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
310 kcal
CARBS
37 g
FATS
15 g
PROTEINS
5 g

Categories & Tags

Cakes & PastriesCake

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