Apple-Pear Upside Down Cake
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 59.14 ml butter
- 118.29 ml brown sugar, lightly packed
- 44.37 ml pecans, toasted, chopped
- 2 fresh apples
- 1 firm but ripe pear
- cake
- 354.88 ml all-purpose flour
- 177.44 ml granulated sugar
- 4.92 ml baking powder
- 2.46 ml baking soda
- 2.46 ml cinnamon
- 2.46 ml ground ginger
- 1.23 ml salt
- 78.78 ml butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 177.44 ml buttermilk
- 4.92 ml vanilla
directions
- Grease bottom and sides of 9-inch square cake pan. Add butter and melt in a 350F oven.
- Stir in brown sugar and spread evenly in pan; sprinkle with pecans.
- Peel, core and thinly slice apples and pear, slicing pear horizontally; toss together and arrange evenly over sugar mixture.
- CAKE: In a bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, and salt.
- Add butter, egg, buttermilk and vanilla.
- With electric mixer, beat on low speed until moistened; beat at medium speed for 1 minute, scraping sides of bowl.
- Spoon over fruit and spread evenly. Bake in a 350F oven for about 45 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean. Let cool on rack for 20 mnutes.
- Run knife around edge of cake; carefully invert onto a plate, replacing any bits that may stick to pan. Serve warm.
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