Pear Coffee Cake

Coffee cake... Wikipedia says coffee cake is a cake intended to be served with coffee. I don't know about you but I could eat any cake with coffee. Or any cake without coffee. Who needs the coffee?

2 pears peeled, 1 chopped and 1 sliced 
1  1/2 cups flour
1/3 cup cornstarch
1  1/2 tsps baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup sugar
3 eggs
1/3 cup sour cream
2/3 cup buttermilk (or milk with 1 tsp vinegar)
2 tbsps vegetable oil

Grease a 9" round spring form pan.

In a large mixer bowl beat eggs and sugar together then add sour cream and buttermilk and mix until smooth.

Combine flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the wet then add the oil. Next fold in the chopped pear.

Pour into prepared pan.

Top with thinly sliced pear. Sprinkle a little white sugar on top if you like.

Bake at 350F for 55-60 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.

Cool 10 minutes then run a knife around the edge of the pan, say a prayer, then release the ring to reveal your coffee cake!

Cool completely on rack before slicing.

Just look at that texture!!

Dust with icing sugar when ready to serve.