A heartwarming pear and pecan cake
Ingredients
1 batch of NUTTY SPREAD (with pecans)
120G BUTTER, softened
100G SUGAR
150G FLOUR
2 EGGS
80 ML MILK
Pinch of SALT
Pinch of BAKING SODA
Pinch of CINNAMON
1 PEAR
1 sheet of store-bought PIE CRUST or do it yourself 😉
1 ts of SUGAR and CINNAMON
Method
- Pre-heat the oven to 160°C. Combine the butter, eggs, flour, sugar, salt, milk and cinnamon until you have a smooth batter.
- Line a round baking tin (16cm diameter) with baking paper and the pie crust.
- Add a 1 cm thick layer of nutty spread.
- Fill the rest of the baking tin for 2/3 with the cake batter.
- Peel pear and cut in six. Cut thin deep slits in the pear and arrange them on the cake. Sprinkle the sugar and cinnamon mix over the pear.
- If you have some left-over pie crust, you can cut three long strips of crust and braid them, creating a beautiful border for the cake.
- Bake for 55-60 minutes.
Lottie was a green hag that lived in the sewer system underneath Umberdale. She had a green, sickly skin and tangled, mangy white hair. Her face was filled with purulent pimples. Every dawn before a night with a full moon, she would transform into a young beautiful halfling and leave the sewers. She has a little stall on the market and with her curly blond hair and kind green eyes it is not difficult for her to convince the good people of Umberdale to buy her delicious pies and cakes.
Lottie thrived on creating tragedy in the lives of her victims and she would prey on the ‘luckiest’, most happy people: a bride-to-be, a young father who bought a cake to celebrate the first birthday of his first son, an athlete who won her first gold medal… Filled with jealousy and hate, she would sell them one of her cursed cakes. The happy but ignorant people would go home to enjoy their baked goods but would then wake up in a trance in the middle of the night and head to the sewers, where they would meet a grisly end.
One foggy autumn dawn, while Lottie was still setting up her little market stall she heard two young women giggling. “Do you want a light blue wedding dress or a teal one?” “I think I want to make a bolt statement and go with a magenta one,” the taller girl responded. “Oh my, do you want to make mother faint?! The princess of Umberdale in a pink wedding dress, that are not the colors of our city! So uncivilized!” the other girl imitated her mother well… Lottie could barely hide her excitement. “Hello girls,” she grinned maliciously, “you cannot go shopping with an empty belly. Please, take these pastries. It is my early wedding gift to the princess.” …
Three courageous adventurers were hired by the Queen of Umberdale to solve the disappearance of her daughter. The investigator led the dwarven fighter, the half-orc paladin and the human sorcerer to the sewers, where they fought with rats as big as dogs, evil slimes and eventually defeated the green hag. They found five victims locked in a big smelly cage and dozens of bones. Turns out Lottie stuffed her victims with pies and cakes until for months. Once a victim doubled in size, they were fed to her disgusting rats. Gross! Anyway, Umberdale is safe again.
the Glazed Goblin 