Upside-down pear and ginger cake recipe

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  • Cuisine: Modern Australian
  • Serves 6 - 8

There’s something magical about preparing a cake from the base up. We love the fact that the top starts on the bottom, and when it’s flipped over it looks amazing. This pear and ginger version tastes particularly fine, too.

Ingredients

2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp brown sugar
4 firm pears, peeled, cored and sliced
2 tbsp lemon juice
125 g butter
65 g (1/3 cup) brown sugar
2 eggs
225 g (1 1/2 cups) self-raising flour
2 tsp ground ginger
2 tbsp lemon juice
Icing sugar to serve
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Preparation

Preheat oven to 180C.

Butter a 22 cm spring form cake tin, line the sides and bottom with greaseproof paper and butter lightly.

Place the butter and brown sugar in a medium saucepan and cook over a low heat for 1–2 minutes, until the sugar dissolves. Add the pears and lemon juice and cook for 3–4 minutes, stirring all the time. Remove from the heat and allow to cool.

Arrange pear slices in the base of the prepared cake tin. Reserve any cooking liquid.

Cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one by one, fully incorporating the first before adding the second. Sift the flour and ginger together and fold in carefully. Add lemon juice and enough cooking liquid to form a soft cake mix.

Spoon into the cake tin over the pear slices and bake in the preheated oven for 40 minutes. Test the cake by inserting a skewer. If it comes out clean, the cake is ready; if it doesn’t, cook for a further 5 minutes and test again.

Allow the cake to cool for 15 minutes, then remove from tin and turn over to reveal the top. Dust with icing sugar to serve.
 

If you enjoyed this Upside-down pear and ginger cake recipe then browse more Modern Australian recipes, dessert recipes, cake recipes, fruit recipes, baking recipes and our most popular hainanese chicken rice recipe.

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Comments (1)

   
30 Apr 2010 12:32 AEST
Patricia Rodgers
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Fabulous
This cake is amazing and was a real hit with my friends
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