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.