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Wot a lovely pear..

It's hard not to make that joke when you are cooking with pears, I don't want to cater to the lowest common denominator, but let's face it, boob jokes are funny and allusions to them are side splitting. On with the pears. I love cakes with fruit in them. I say this a lot, because it is true a lot of the time. I am not mad on things like prunes in cake (clammy and weirdly "elderly" tasting - I expect to like them more when over 70), but most fresh fruit gets a thumbs up. I also really like upside down cakes, because there is a sort of theatrical style reveal at the end. Not only will there be cake, but there is also an element of excitement as to how it will look, how it will set and whether it will come out of the tin. Granted the last one is edging towards the terror end of the excitement scale. But it's still on the scale. Gabe has show no interest in the three pears sitting on the side board until the split second that I started to peel them for this re