Description
Kids and adults love it, serve with a dollop of sour cream or sweet whiped cream if you like.
Ingredients
- Butter
- Sugar
- Pears
- Brown Sugar
- Egg
- Molasses
- Baking Soda
- Boiling Water
- All-purpose Flour
- Ground Ginger
- Cinnamon
- Ground Cloves
- Salt
Instructions
- Spread 1 / 4 cup butter on bottom of 10 inch round cake pan or 9 inch square cake pan
- Sprinkle with granulated sugar
- Arrange pear slices on top
- Cream together remaining butter and brown sugar
- Beat in egg until light and fluffy
- Stir in molasses
- Dissolve baking soda in boiling water, set aside
- Sift together flour, ginger, cinnamon, cloves and salt
- Add flour mixture alternately with dissolved baking soda to creamed mixture, stirring just until blended
- Pour over pears
- Bake in 350f oven 50-65 minutes or until tester inserted into centre comes out clean
- Run knife around edge of pan to loosen cake
- Let cool in pan for 15 minutes, then invert a serving plate on top of pan and turn out upside-down onto plate
- Serve warm