Upside Down Cranberry-asian Pear Star Anise Cake |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 40 Minutes |
Ready In: 40 Minutes Servings: 8 |
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Simply Mings recipe for a fabulous flavor for this upside down cake. Asian Pears can be substituted with another fruit indeed! Ingredients:
1 cup sugar |
8 ounces unsalted butter |
zest of 1 orange |
4 extra large eggs |
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour |
2 teaspoons baking powder |
1 teaspoon kosher salt |
cranberry topping |
2 cups fresh cranberries |
1 teaspoon vanilla extract |
3 tablespoons sugar |
2 teaspoons ground star anise |
zest of 1 orange |
1 asian pear, peeled, very thinly sliced (between 1/8 and 1/4-inch thick) |
for prepping pan |
2 tablespoons sugar |
2-3 tablespoons unsalted butter |
2-3 tablespoons all-purpose flour |
round of parchment |
vanilla ice cream, for serving |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees convection or 350 standard.
2. Prepare a 10-inch cake pan by greasing, lining with parchment round, greasing and flouring and coating with 2 tablespoons sugar. In a stand mixer fitted with a paddle, cream together sugar, butter and orange zest.
3. Add eggs one at a time, allowing each to fully incorporate before adding the next, and scraping continually.
4. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and kosher salt.
5. Add flour gradually and mix until just combined. Meanwhile, in a saucepot over medium-high heat, combine cranberries, vanilla, sugar, ground star anise and orange zest and cook until sugar has dissolved and sauce comes together, about 5 minutes.
6. Remove from heat. Arrange Asian pear slices in an overlapping layer on bottom of pan.
7. Spoon cranberry sauce evenly over Asian pears. Spread cake batter evenly over cranberries.
8. Bake in center of oven until top springs back when touched with fingertip, about 30-40 minutes convection or 40-50 minutes standard oven.
9. Remove from oven and let cool on a rack for about 5-10 minutes before inverting onto a serving plate.
10. Serve with ice cream.
11. *to make ground star anise, toast whole star anise in a dry pan until fragrant.
12. Let cool and grind to a powder in a spice grinder.
13. Sift ground star anise and use the finely ground product to in the recipe.
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