Pear Upside-down Cake

Name: Pear Upside-down Cake
Yield: Use a small cake tin. I use 20 x 12cm tin.
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 2 Very Ripe Pears; 1-2 tablespoons Brown Sugar; 50 g Butter *melted; 1/4 cup Sugar *OR 1/2 cup for sweeter cake; 1 pinch Salt; 1 cup Self-Raising Flour; 2 Eggs; 1/2 cup Milk; 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract; *Note: If you use more pears or a larger tin, make more cake mixture

Hiroko Liston @hirokoliston

Melbourne, Australia

When you find some Pears in your fruit basket have turned very ripe and too soft and nearly rotten (but NOT rotten yet), what do you do? I always make this cake. This recipe is made for two pears. If you use more pears, naturally you need more cake batter and a larger cake tin. Tinned pears can be used, but the taste is not the same.

Hiroko Liston @hirokoliston

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Ingredients

Use a small cake tin. I use 20 x 12cm tin.

2Very Ripe Pears
1-2 tablespoonsBrown Sugar
50 gButter *melted
1/4 cupSugar *OR 1/2 cup for sweeter cake
1 pinchSalt
1 cupSelf-Raising Flour
2Eggs
1/2 cupMilk
1 teaspoonVanilla Extract
*Note: If you use more pears or a larger tin, make more cake mixture

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Steps

1

Preheat oven to 180℃. Line a cake tin with baking paper. Sprinkle Brown Sugar on the baking paper evenly.
2

Peel skin and slice Pears and arrange the slices on the baking paper.
3

Mix melted Butter, Sugar and Salt until creamy, add Eggs and Vanilla and mix well. Add Flour and Milk, and mix until smooth.
4

Pour the mixture over the Pear slices, smooth the surface, and bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until cooked. Set aside to cool before turning onto a plate.