Upside-down pear & ginger cake

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• Ellen

  06 August 2009

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  I made this the other night and it was delicious. I always put more ginger and often add mixed spice to anything like this which I think adds something. Try it!

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  Excellent recipe but for some reason I can't save in my binder

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• orange_bernard

  13 February 2011

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  Just made this cake and it is really delicious! Very easy to make and not too sweet. I think if I make it again i would put more ginger in.

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Ingredients

• 1 tbsp golden caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 250ml milk
• 350g self-raising flour
• 3 small pears , halved and cored - put a piece of stem ginger in the core of each half
• 1 tsp ground ginger

SYRUP

• 200g butter , plus 2 tbsp melted butter for the tin
• 200g unrefined dark brown sugar
• 1 tbsp golden syrup
• 3 pieces stem ginger , chopped, plus 2 tbsp ginger syrup from the jar

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Difficulty and servings

Serves 9

Preparation and cooking times

Ready in 20 minutes plus 1 hour 45 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp golden caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 250ml milk
• 350g self-raising flour
• 3 small pears , halved and cored - put a piece of stem ginger in the core of each half
• 1 tsp ground ginger

SYRUP

• 200g butter , plus 2 tbsp melted butter for the tin
• 200g unrefined dark brown sugar
• 1 tbsp golden syrup
• 3 pieces stem ginger , chopped, plus 2 tbsp ginger syrup from the jar

Per serving

538 kcalories, protein 6,6g, carbohydrate 79,9g, fat 23,5 g, saturated fat 14g, fibre 1,9g, salt 0,95 g

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