A Beauty of a Pear Cake from the Twittersphere

Vina Sananikone made Bart Hutchins’s Pear Cake and now you have it

By Susan Able | Photography by Vina Sananikone

Part of every workday is posting our own content to social media, and then scrolling through posts to see the news and happenings, and see who has tagged Edible DC because we routinely share content from other local food, travel or lifestyle accounts if we think it will resonate with our readers.

And reader, if you heard a record scratch—it was my eyes landing on this beautiful pear cake in the Instagram feed of friend and past EDC contributor, Vina Sananikone. She told me that she had seen the recipe in a recent tweet by Bart Hutchins, the Chef de Cuisine at Beauchert’s Saloon (@beauchertssaloon), which has for the Covid times, transformed into Fight Club, a purveyor of very inventive, impressive sandwiches, snacks & treats.

Chef Hutchins, a committed Tweeter found @bartisnew, shared this buttery poached pear cake recipe that that he wrote about 4 years ago, and encouraged his followers to take advantage of pear season by giving it a spin.

The recipe as found on Twitter with notes from the chef:

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