Caramel Pear And Macadamia Upside-down Cake
Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins
Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Ingredients
- Servings: 8
- 175 g butter, softened
- 2 pears, peeled cored and cut into 8 wedges
- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
- 1/4 cup cream
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/3 cup macadamia nuts, chopped
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/4 cup self-raising flour
- 1/2 cup almond meal
- 1/3 cup sour cream
Recipe
- 1 preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius grease a round 20cm cake pan and line base with non-stick baking paper.
- 2 melt 20g butter in frying pan and heat until foaming. add pears cut side down and cook 2 minutes eahc side until golden brown.
- 3 arrange pear over base of cake pan.
- 4 melt 25g remaining butter until foaming. add 1/2 cup sugar stirring for 1 minute.
- 5 add cream and water and cook for 2 minutes until mixture thickens.
- 6 remove from heat and pour half the caramel sauce over the pears.
- 7 sprinkle pears with nuts.
- 8 using electric beater, beat ground ginger, remaining butter and remaining sugar in medium bowl.
- 9 add eggs 1 at a time combining well after each addition.
- 10 use a wooden spoon to stir in the flours, almond meal and sour cream until just combined.
- 11 spoon mixture over pears and smooth the surface.
- 12 bake in oven 1 1/2 hours until skewer inserted comes out clean.
- 13 remove from oven set aside 5 minutes before inverting onto a plate.
- 14 drizzle cake with reserved caramel sauce and serve warm with vanilla ice-cream or cream.
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