Polenta Honey Cake With Pears

3.9 (85)

This barroom delivers a immense payoff for precise small effort: stunning, aureate and inlaid with caramelized pear slices. Served with rustic charm close retired of the skillet successful which it's baked, each portion is heavenly — tender yet textured acknowledgment to cornmeal (polenta); studded with saccharine chunks of pear; and wafting of honey, vanilla and lemon. And since the batter is made with whole-grain flour, healthful lipid and a humble magnitude of sweetener, it’s amended for you than a emblematic cake.

Be definite to usage perfectly ripe pears — effect that yields to unit erstwhile you propulsion down with your thumb astatine the cervix adjacent the stem — to marque the cake. If you tin find lone hard pears astatine the market, store them successful a brownish insubstantial container connected your room antagonistic for a fewer days to soften.

Cover lightly and refrigerate for up to 3 days.

From cookbook writer and registered dietitian nutritionist Ellie Krieger.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (1 wedge), based connected 10

• Calories

  263

• Fat

  13 g

• Saturated Fat

  2 g

• Carbohydrates

  36 g

• Sodium

  130 mg

• Cholesterol

  43 mg

• Protein

  4 g

• Fiber

  3 g

• Sugar

  19 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer and registered dietitian nutritionist Ellie Krieger.

Tested by Ann Maloney.