Recipe: Apple Pear Cake

Apple Pear Cake

1/4 cup margarine
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
2 1/4 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground nutmeg
2 small apples, finely chopped
3/4 oz dried pears, minced
3/4 cup low fat buttermilk*
1 tbsp confectioners sugar

Preheat the oven to 375F. Spray a 9 1/2 inch tube pan with nonstick spray.

In a large bowl, cream the margarine with the brown sugar. Beat in the egg and vanilla.

In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir to blend. Stir in the cinnamon and nutmeg.

Alternately add the flour mixture and the buttermilk milk to the butter-sugar mixture in three additions, beating just until the flour is no longer visible. Stir in the apples and pears.

Scrape the batter into the tube pan and bake for 40 minutes, or until golden brown and tests clean.

Cool in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes, then unmold the cake and cool completely. Dust cake with confectioner's sugar just before serving.

*Or you can use 3/4 cup regular milk and 1 Tbsp vinegar to make sour milk.

Serving size: one 2 1/4 inch wedge.
Source: Weight Watchers Smart Choice Recipe Collection 1993