A delicious ginger and pear loaf recipe topped with rich salted caramel sauce - a warm, spiced bake that’s perfect for sharing with family and friends.
Simple to make and absolutely mouthwatering, it’s an ideal treat for afternoon tea or dessert.
Recipe by Michelle @michellemorfett
Ingredients
Loaf
- 2 pears, sliced about 3mm thick
- 120g unsalted butter, softened
- 160g brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 120g golden syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 270g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tbsp ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt (if using salted butter, omit extra salt)
- 250ml milk
Salted caramel sauce
- 125ml water
- 325g caster sugar
- 250ml pouring cream
- 50g unsalted butter
- 1 tsp salt
Method
Loaf
- Preheat your oven to 160°C on fan bake.
- Line a 21cm x 11cm loaf pan with baking paper and spray with oil. Place the sliced pears into the bottom of the loaf tin, pack them tight, some will be on top of each other and that's okay.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, add the softened butter and brown sugar. Mix for 2 minutes.
- Scrape down the sides of the bowl, add the egg, golden syrup, and vanilla essence. Quickly mix again until combined.
- Sift all the dry ingredients together in a separate bowl, then add them to the batter.
- Pour in all of the milk and mix again to combine, so you have a smooth batter.
- Pour the batter into the loaf pan and bake for 50-60 minutes. Check at 50min with a skewer, but it could need more time, mine took 55min
- Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack.
Salted caramel sauce
- Whilst the loaf is baking, make the caramel sauce.
- Put the water and caster sugar into a medium heavy saucepan over a high heat.
- Heat, swirling occasionally, so no sugar crystals form around the edges. If it is starting to look a bit crispy on the sides of the pot, get a wet pastry brush and run it around the edge of the pot to re-dissolve the sugar.
- When the sugar has become a golden amber colour, slowly and carefully pour in the cream (otherwise it may splash up) and gently whisk. Be careful of the steam!
- Once all the cream is whisked in, add the butter and salt, then whisk again until all combined.
- Drizzle the salted caramel sauce over top of the loaf and serve immediately. Yum!
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