Home » Food » By Country or Region » North America » America » Caramel Pear Walnut Cake Caramel Pear Walnut Cake September 30, 2022 by Kimberly Killebrew · 38 CommentsAs an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.See my disclosure policy.Studded with juicy pears, topped with a rich and sticky caramel sauce with toasted almonds, and featuring a wonderfully moist and tender crumb, this Caramel Pear Walnut Cake is mouthwateringly delicious! The creation of this cake resulted from two things:  First and foremost, a massive craving for something sweet and secondly, I had two pears on the verge of death that were begging to be used.  My mind starting drawing associations:  What goes well with pears?  Caramel.

 What goes well with caramel and pears?  Walnuts.  And with that I went to work and a cake was born that is simply out of this world delicious! I love pears but they’re frustrating.  Either they’re way too green and hard and never ripen into anything palatable, or they go from ripe to inedibly over-ripe overnight.  (Try purchasing pears in bulk and watch the latter happen to them all simultaneously and try to figure out what to do with an entire box of over-ripe pears.  That’s happened to me on more than one occasion and the answer for me was Caramel Pear Butter.)    But if you only have a few over-ripe pears to contend with I have the perfect solution for you:  This incredible Caramel Walnut Pear Cake.  And the riper the pears the bette

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