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Chef Katie’s famous “Christmas Cake” AKA Pear Gingerbread Upside Down Cake, as seen this week on KATU afternoon. This cake is an absolute show stopper and will have your guests asking for another piece! 

Pear Gingerbread Upside Down Cake 
Makes 1 8 or 9 inch cake
2 medium pears, sliced thin

Sauce
4 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup brown sugar 
1/4 teaspoon salt

Combined in saucepan, bring to boil and whisk till smooth. Pour into greased cake pan. Let cool completely. Top with overlapping, sliced pears, arranged in a circle.

Cake Batter 
2 cups AP flour
1/4 cup granulated sugar 
1 teaspoon baking soda 
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger 
1 teaspoon cinnamon 
1/4 teaspoon clove
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 
1/2 cup unsalted melted butter
3/4 cup molasses 
1/4 cup water 
Zest of 1 orange 
1 large egg
1 cup buttermilk 
1/2 cup diced crystallized ginger for garnish 

Preheat oven to 350F

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg.

Melt the butter in a sauce pan. Remove pot from heat. Whisk in molasses, water, buttermilk, orange zest, and eggs. In a large bowl, combined dry ingredients. Gently pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mixed together until batter is smooth.

Pour the batter into the prepared pan, and bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until the cake begins to pull away from the edge of the pan and caramel on the bottom is visibly boiling around the sides of the cake.

remove from oven and let cool for 15 minutes. Carefully go around the edge of the cake with a spatula or thin, bladed knife. Invert cake. Top with crystallized ginger.

Enjoy
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