Gingerbread Skillet Cake with Pears
Gingerbread Skillet Cake with Pears is a vegetarian recipe with 8 servings. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 312 calories, 3g of protein, and 12g of fat. It works best as a dessert, and is done in approximately 45 minutes. It is perfect for Christmas. If you have salt, flour, granulated sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.
Instructions
Toss together pears and 2 tablespoons flour. Set aside.
Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a 9" cast-iron skillet over medium heat.
Sprinkle brown sugar evenly in skillet. Fan pear slices in skillet over brown sugar.
Combine 1 cup flour and next 6 ingredients in a large bowl.
Cut 5 tablespoons butter into flour mixture with a pastry blender until crumbly.
Add buttermilk and molasses, stirring just until moistened.
Spread batter evenly over pears, leaving a 1" edge.
Bake at 350 for 45 minutes or until bubbly and browned. Cool in pan on a wire rack 30 minutes before serving.
Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.