Pear Upside-down Gingerbread Cake
This is an old family recipe, that’s been handed down, and is always such a delicious treat. The cake is dense and moist, and when you turn it out of the pan upside down after baking, the pears embedded in the bottom (now the top) offer a beautiful sweet surprise! It’s a great way to use canned pears, for a fruit treat in the middle of winter.
Ingredients:
1 cup flour
½ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon (heaping of course)
1 tsp ground ginger
¼ tsp nutmeg
1 egg
1/3 cup + 5 tbls brown sugar
¼ cup molasses or honey
½ cup sour milk or buttermilk
¼ cup shortening, melted
¼ cup butter
halved pears to cover bottom of dish
Instructions:
mix dry ingredients
combine egg, 5 tbsp brown sugar, molasses, milk, shortening
melt butter into bottom of a cake pan
sprinkle 1/3 cup sugar, lay pears
pour batter over pears
bake at 350F for 40 minutes
let cool, and then flip upside-down onto a serving tray.
eat and enjoy!!
luscious served warm with vanilla ice cream, or cinnamon-spice whipped cream
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