Easy Pear Tea Cake

• 3/4 cup plain wholemeal flour
• 3/4 cup self raising flour
• 3/4 cup caster or superfine sugar
• 1 egg, at room temperature
• 125g/4ozs melted butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 400g/14ozs. pears or apples, diced (you can even use tinned and I don't bother peeling them)
• 2 tablespoons cinnamon or vanilla sugar
• Icing sugar to serve (optional)

Step 1 - Preheat oven to 180C/350F. Grease and line an 20cm/8inch springform tin with parchment paper.

Step 2 - Mix the two flours, sugar, butter, egg and vanilla in a bowl. Press three quarters of the mix into the base of the tin-it will be like a sticky, buttery dough. Scatter the diced pears on top. Then place small pieces of the dough on it in a patchwork pattern so that the pear is not entirely covered up.

Step 3 - add 2/3 of the mixture to the bottom of the greased pan

Step 4 - then add the pears

Step 5 - then the rest of the dough scattered in pieces

Then the sugar

Step 6 - Sprinkle with cinnamon or vanilla sugar (I prefer vanilla sugar for pears and cinnamon sugar for apples). Bake for 40-50 minutes. Sieve some icing sugar on top. Allow to cool before slicing as it is very delicate when warm.