This upside-down pear gingerbread cake is delicious yet easy to make. It's the perfect dessert for a Thanksgiving or Christmas feast.
Prep
29 min
Cook
59 min
Servings
Difficulty
Hard
Ingredients
2.5 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1.5 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cloves
0.5 teaspoons salt
0.25 cups butter
0.25 cups brown sugar
1
, 29 ounce
nonstick cooking spray
0.5 cups white sugar
0.5 cups butter
, softened
1 large egg
1 cup molasses
1 cup hot water
Instructions
1
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2
Lightly mix flour, cinnamon, ginger, baking soda, cloves, and salt together in a large bowl until thoroughly combined. Set aside.
3
Place 1/4 cup butter into a 10-inch springform pan, put it in the oven, and allow to melt for 1 to 2 minutes. Sprinkle brown sugar evenly over melted butter. Pat pear halves dry with paper towels and cut each half into 3 slices lengthwise. Arrange pear slices in a spiral pattern on top of brown sugar. Without disturbing arranged slices, spray the inside walls of the pan with cooking spray.
4
Beat together white sugar and 1/2 cup butter in a second large bowl with an electric mixer until creamy; beat in egg, then mix in molasses. Mix flour mixture into molasses mixture, then stir in hot water. Pour batter over pear slices in the prepared springform pan.
5
Bake in the preheated oven until a knife inserted into the cake comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool completely in the pan before inverting onto a serving dish and removing the pan.
Nutrition per serving
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