Pear Upside Down Cake
Absolutely delicious!! Found a recipe on the net for a pineapple upside down cake but substituted pears for pineapple. The family loved it! Its so simple...one cannot go wrong.
Steps
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Melt 1 / 3 cup of butter in a 9 inch square cake pan in the oven and remove from heat.
Stir in the brown sugar.
Arrange pear slices in a sunburst fashion on top of the sugar.
In a small bowl combine flour , baking powder and salt.
Set aside.
In a medium bowl cream remaining butter and sugar.
Add eggs one at a time and continue beating until light.
Stir in vanilla.
Alternate additions of dry ingredients and milk to the creamed mixture , beginning and ending with dry ingredients.
Pour over the pear in the cake pan.
Bake for 55 minutes , until toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.
Cool for 10 minutes , then turn upside down over a serving plate.
Leave the pan on top of the cake for 2 to 3 minutes to let all the syrup and fruit drop out.
Serve warm with cream.
Ingredients
butter, brown sugar, pears, flour, baking powder, salt, white sugar, eggs, vanilla, milk