1/4 c Margarine
3/4 c Packed light brown sugar
1 Egg
1 1/2 ts Vanilla
2 1/4 c Flour
1 1/2 ts Baking powder
1/2 ts Baking soda
1/2 ts Salt
2 ts Ground cinnamon
1 t Ground nutmeg
2 sm Apples, chopped
3/4 oz Dried pears
3/4 c Lowfat buttermilk *
1 tb Confectioners sugar
- * Or you can use 3/4 cup regular milk and 1 T vinegar to make sour milk. 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.
- Finely chop the apples, and mince the dried pears. Alternately add the flour mixture and the 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 min., 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 confectioners sugar just before serving. Note: If you don't have any dried pears, you can substitute raisins
