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Ingredients

• 1 cup Hojiblanca Spanish olive oil
• 1 ¼ cups caster sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 2 cups plain flour
• 1 tbsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground allspice
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
• ½ cup coarsely chopped walnuts
• 2 ½ cups cored and peeled and coarsely cubed pears

Method

1. Preheat oven to 160ºC. 
2. Grease and lightly dust a 22 cm spring-form cake tin with flour. 
3. Combine Spanish olive oil, sugar and eggs in a bowl and whisk with an electric mixer until thick and pale. 
4. Sift flour and spices into a large bowl, pour in wet ingredients and mix well to combine. 
5. Stir in walnuts and cubes of pear. 
6. Pour mixture into prepared cake tin, taking care to evenly distribute the fruit. 
7. Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out a little moist but clean. 
8. Dust finished cake with icing sugar and slice to serve warm.