Pear Upside-Down Banana Cake

Name: Pear Upside-Down Banana Cake
Prep time: 55 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons baking soda; 118 milliliters mashed ripe banana (about 1 medium); 59 milliliters firmly packed brown sugar; 1 large egg; 296 milliliters all-purpose flour; 158 milliliters granulated sugar; 59 milliliters low-fat buttermilk; 473 milliliters thinly sliced peeled red pear (about 1 1/2 small pears); 0 teaspoons salt; 59 milliliters butter or stick margarine, softened; 1 Tbsp butter or stick margarine, melted

Pear Upside-Down Banana Cake requires around 55 minutes from start to finish. This dessert has 271 calories, 3g of protein, and 8g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 8. This recipe covers 5% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up egg, flour, firmly brown sugar, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Coat bottom of a 9-inch round cake pan with melted butter.

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Butter

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Cake Form

Sprinkle with brown sugar, and arrange pear slices over sugar in an overlapping pattern.

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Brown Sugar

Sugar

Pear

Beat 1/4 cup butter at medium speed of an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add 2/3 cup granulated sugar, beating well.

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Granulated Sugar

Butter

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Hand Mixer

Add egg and banana, beating well.

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Banana

Egg

Combine flour, soda, and salt in a small bowl; add to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.

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Buttermilk

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Pop

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Bowl

Mix at low speed after each addition until blended. Spoon batter over pear slices.

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Pear

Bake at 350 for 30 to 35 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes in pan on a wire rack. Loosen cake from sides of pan with a narrow metal spatula and invert onto a cake plate.

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Wire Rack