Pear Date Skillet Cake

ByHiya, I’m Shashi November 9, 2016March 7, 2025

This Pear and Date Skillet Cake is healthy, gluten-free, refined sugar-free, and dairy-free! Served with a drizzle of homemade date syrup, each mouthful is a truly decadent experience!

This Pear and Date Skillet Cake whips up in the Blender and is Gluten-Free, Refined Sugar-Free, and Dairy Free.

This Pear Date Skillet Cake is absolutely delicious. It is the perfect ending to a dinner or lunch. It pairs well with a glass of wine or a cup of coffee or tea.

And today, you get the recipe for this cake along with the recipe for pear butter and date syrup.

This skillet cake, along with its accompaniments, is so easy to make, all you need is one blender, one skillet, a spatula, an oven, and the ingredients listed below.

What are the ingredients needed to make these recipes?

The ingredient breakdown is as follows:

PEAR & DATE SKILLET CAKE

Pear butter
Eggs
Dates
Coconut oil
Buckwheat flour
Baking powder
Pear
Salt

DATE SYRUP

Dates
Water

PEAR BUTTER

Pears (by the way, find out all about pears here)
Water
Cinnamon
Cardamom
Cloves
Nutmeg
Ginger powder

If you had asked me to eat a refined sugar-free cake three months ago, I would have chuckled and said: “…not unless you won the lottery and are planning on sharing your winnings with me!”

But, life has a way of delivering it’s lessons to me that often ends up with me eating my words.

I gave up refined sugar completely as part of a two-month sugar cleanse. During the second month of this ordeal, I re-introduced fruits and dried fruits to my taste-buds again.

It was in this phase that I rediscovered my love of dates (we are talking about that wrinkly date fruit) and raisins and homemade apple and pear butters.

I am not sure if it was my deprived taste-buds, but a little homemade apple or pear butter or date paste or date syrup went a long way in adding a tantalizingly sweet flavor to my baked goods – like this Pear and Date Skillet Cake!

When I first tasted a spoonful of this Skillet Cake, I must admit that I forgot that it was refined sugar free. But, I chalked it up to my deprived taste-buds – until, my daughter and mom and sister and friends gave this the thumbs up – with one of them eating 3 slices of this cake even though they kept saying they didn’t like pears!

I am a big believer in that all things happen for the best – in time.

That job lost, that mandatory sugar-fast, that lying date (not the fruit), that rainy day, they just help things seem clearer.

Sometimes, they even help you find a new found love for what you had right there in front of you.

Dates and pears have been two of my favorite fruits, but somehow, with the flavors of fall, I overlooked how incredible they were together.

So, I decided to unite them with my taste-buds again – in this easy cake!

All you need is one blender, one skillet, a spatula and an oven.

I used gluten free, nutrient dense, buckwheat flour along with a spiced homemade pear butter I had on hand, some eggs, coconut oil and some dates.

I threw all my ingredients into my blender – scraped them out with a spatula into the skillet and voila – this delicious skillet cake emerged from the oven!

Pear Date Skillet Cake

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Prep Time: 30

Cook Time: 30

Total Time: 1

Servings:

Author: Shashi

This Pear and Date Skillet Cake whips up in a Blender and happens to be gluten-free, refined sugar-free, and dairy free! Served with a drizzle of homemade date syrup, each mouthful is a truly decadent experience!