Ozark Pudding Cake

Name: Ozark Pudding Cake
Prep time: 1 h 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 20 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters sliced natural almonds, toasted; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 118 milliliters dried cranberries (optional); 1 egg, at room temperature; 142 grams cup all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon ground ginger; 2 larges but firm pears, peeled, quartered, and cored; 0 teaspoons fine sea salt; 198 grams cup , plus one teaspoon sugar; 57 grams tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature; 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Ozark Pudding Cake might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe makes 8 servings with 322 calories, 5g of protein, and 11g of fat each. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have butter, flour, ground ginger, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Instructions

Center an oven rack and preheat the oven to 350ºF.

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Oven

Finely chop one of the pears and thinly slice the other.

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Pear

Sift together the flour, baking powder, ginger and salt in a bowl, and then whisk the mixture by hand to ensure that the ingredients are well mixed.

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Baking Powder

Ginger

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Whisk

Bowl

Using a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, blend the butter and sugar together on medium speed until the mixture resembles wet sand.

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Butter

Sugar

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Stand Mixer

Add the egg and vanilla and blend on medium-high speed until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Scrape down the bowl occasionally as needed. Turn the mixer to low speed and add the flour mixture all at once.

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Vanilla

All Purpose Flour

Egg

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Blender

Bowl

Mix until just blended. The batter will be stiff.

Using a rubber spatula, fold in the chopped pear (setting aside the sliced pear for the top), half the almonds, and the cranberries, and stir just until blended. Dump the batter into the prepared skillet and spread it in an even layer. Arrange the pear slices on top of the batter and sprinkle with the remaining almonds and the remaining teaspoon of sugar.

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Cranberries

Almonds

Spread

Sugar

Pear

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Frying Pan

Spatula

Place the skillet in the middle of the oven and bake until the cake is golden in color and the center springs back when lightly touched, 38 to 40 minutes. (The heat from the pan will continue to bake the cake after it is removed from the oven, so take care to remove it when it is just barely done).

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Oven

Frying Pan

Serve warm from the skillet with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

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Vanilla Ice Cream