Upside-Down Pear Gingerbread Cake

Name: Upside-Down Pear Gingerbread Cake
Prep time: 5 h
Cook time: 5 h
Total time: 5 h
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking soda; 1 large egg, lightly beaten; 591 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoons ground cloves; 1 teaspoon ground ginger; 118 milliliters packed light brown sugar; 237 milliliters molasses (preferably mild); 2 1/2 firm pears (preferably Bosc); 0 teaspoons salt; 118 milliliters stick unsalted butter, softened; 6 servings Accompaniment: vanilla ice cream; 237 milliliters boiling water

Upside-Down Pear Gingerbread Cake might be just the dessert you are searching for. One portion of this dish contains approximately 9g of protein, 24g of fat, and a total of 741 calories. This recipe serves 6. This recipe covers 21% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of butter, ground cloves, molasses, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious. It is perfect for Christmas. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 5 hours.

Instructions

Peel and core pears and cut each into 8 wedges.

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Pear

Melt butter in skillet over moderate heat until foam subsides. Reduce heat to low, then sprinkle brown sugar over bottom of skillet and cook, undisturbed, 3 minutes (not all sugar will be melted). Arrange pears decoratively over sugar and cook, undisturbed, 2 minutes.

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Brown Sugar

Butter

Pear

Sugar

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Frying Pan

Remove from heat.

Preheat oven to 350°F.

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Oven

Whisk together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and salt in a bowl.

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Baking Soda

Cinnamon

Clove

Ginger

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Whisk

Bowl

Whisk together molasses and boiling water in a small bowl. Beat together butter, brown sugar, and egg in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium speed until creamy, about 2 minutes, then alternately mix in flour mixture and molasses in 3 batches at low speed until smooth.

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Brown Sugar

Molasses

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Water

Egg

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Hand Mixer

Whisk

Bowl

Pour batter over topping in skillet, spreading evenly and being careful not to disturb pears, and bake in middle of oven until a tester comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes.

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Pear

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Oven

Frying Pan

Cool cake in skillet on a rack 5 minutes. Run a thin knife around edge of skillet, then invert a large plate with a lip over skillet and, using pot holders to hold skillet and plate tightly together, invert cake onto plate. Replace any pears that stick to skillet.

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Pear

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Pot Holder