Maple-Pear Upside-Down Cake

Maple-Pear Upside-Down Cake
Maple-Pear Upside-Down Cake is a vegetarian dessert. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 287 calories, 4g of protein, and 9g of fat. This recipe serves 8. If you have ground ginger, flour, baking soda, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

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Preheat oven to 35
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Bring syrup to a boil in a medium nonstick skillet over medium-high heat; cook 2 minutes.
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Remove from heat; arrange pears in pan in a spokelike fashion.
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Place pan over medium-high heat, and cook until syrup thickens (about 4 minutes), gently shaking pan frequently.
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Lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife.
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Combine flour and next 4 ingredients (flour through salt); stirring well with a whisk.
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Place sugar, butter, and vanilla in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well-blended (about 2 minutes).
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Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in flour mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
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Pour batter evenly over pear mixture in prepared pan; wrap handle of skillet with foil.
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Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until cake springs back when touched lightly in center. Run a knife around outside edge. Cool in pan 5 minutes.
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Place a plate upside down on top of cake; invert onto plate.
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Serve warm.
DifficultyHard
Ready In45 m.
Servings8
Health Score2
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