Pear Cake 

CARAMELIZED PEAR CAKE from my hero Joel Robuchon

For 8 gluttons

350g butter
250g raising flour
1kg ripe pears
50g honey
250g icing sugar
4 eggs
Pinch of salt
50ml pear eau de vie or any eau de vie available in your pantry or a bit of cherry perhaps ? (optional)

1. Butter and flour a cake tin, reserve.
   
2. Peel the pears and dice into 2cm pieces.
   
3. In a frying pan brown them over a high heat with 82 g of butter.
   
4. Add the honey and let it caramelize until golden autumn leaves.
   
5. With a whisk, mix 250g of softened butter with the icing sugar.
   
6. Incorporate the eggs one by one then add the rest of the flour and the 
   
7. pinch of salt.
   
8. Softly add the caramelized pears and the juices.
   
9. Pour the mixture into the reserved cake tin and bake at 200/220C for 50minutes.
   

Remove the cake from the oven, let it cool for 10 minutes then remove it from the tin (if you can :)