Upside-Down Pear Gingerbread Cake

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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

Instructions

  1. 1 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
  2. 2 Lightly mix flour, cinnamon, ginger, baking soda, cloves, and salt together in a large bowl until thoroughly combined. Set aside.
  3. 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. 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. 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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