Polenta Cake with Bosc Pears
Polenta Cake with Bosc Pears might be just the dessert you are searching for. One portion of this dish contains roughly 7g of protein, 13g of fat, and a total of 474 calories. This recipe serves 6. This recipe covers 12% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have flour, salt, lemon rind, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.
Instructions
Beat margarine and 1/3 cup brown sugar at medium speed of a mixer until well-blended.
Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
Add milk and lemon rind; beat well.
Combine flour and next 4 ingredients (flour through salt); add to creamed mixture, and beat well. Stir in chopped apple.
Spoon batter into a 9-inch round cake pan coated with cooking spray.
Bake at 350 for 28 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 5 minutes; remove from pan.
Let cool completely on a wire rack.
Combine remaining 1/3 cup brown sugar, water, and cinnamon in a 2-cup glass measure; stir well. Microwave at high 30 seconds or until sugar dissolves.
Combine pears and brown sugar mixture; toss well. Arrange pears, cut sides down, in a 13- x 9-inch baking dish.
Bake at 475 for 15 minutes or until tender. Turn pears over; sprinkle with turbinado sugar.
Bake an additional 5 minutes.
Garnish with cinnamon sticks, if desired.