Chocolate Gingerbread With Warm Pear Sauce
Chocolate Gingerbread With Warm Pear Sauce requires around 1 hour and 17 minutes from start to finish. One portion of this dish contains approximately 7g of protein, 28g of fat, and a total of 649 calories. This recipe covers 14% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 9. It is perfect for Christmas. Head to the store and pick up cream cheese, firmly brown sugar, buttermilk, and a few other things to make it today.
Instructions
Whisk together first 3 ingredients in a small bowl; set aside.
Combine flour, salt, ginger, and cardamom; set aside.
Beat 1/2 cup butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy.
Add granulated sugar and 1/4 cup brown sugar; beat until creamy.
Add egg, and beat until blended. Slowly add buttermilk mixture to butter mixture; beat 2 minutes. Stir flour mixture into butter mixture just until combined. Fold in crystallized ginger and chocolate morsels.
Pour mixture into a lightly greased 9-inch square pan.
Bake at 350 for 53 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched in center. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack.
Melt 1/4 cup butter in a large skillet over medium heat.
Add 1/4 cup brown sugar, stirring until sugar dissolves.
Add pears; cook 5 minutes or until slightly thickened, stirring gently to coat.
Serve warm sauce over cake.