Brown Butter Upside Down Pear Cake

• Vegetarian

• Produce

  • 1 Pear

• Refrigerated

  • 2 Eggs

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp Baking soda
  • 1/2 cup Brown sugar
  • 1 Pinch Salt
  • 1/3 tsp Salt
  • 1/2 cup Sugar
  • 1/4 tsp Vanilla

• Dairy

  • 3 tbsp Butter
  • 1 stick Butter
  • 1/2 cup Buttermilk

• Liquids

  • 1 tbsp Water

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Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1 tablespoon water
• ½ cup brown sugar
• Pinch of salt
• 1 pear, halved. Cored and thinly sliced
• 1 stick butter, divided and softened
• ½ cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• ¼ teaspoon vanilla
• ½ cup buttermilk + 3 tablespoons buttermilk
• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• ⅓ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 9 inch round cake pan. For the pears.
• Melt three tablespoons of butter in a large sauté pan over a medium heat. Add water and brown sugar, cook over a medium heat until brown sugar is dissolved, about three minutes. Reduce the heat to medium-low and add pears. Cook another two minutes. Set aside.
• Melt four tablespoons of butter in a small saucepan over a medium heat, swirl butter until it begins to brown and smells nutty. Pour into a bowl and stick in the freezer for about 10 minutes until it becomes a consistency close to softened butter. (you may have to stir every five minutes to make sure it doesn’t freeze)
• Whisk flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder together in a medium bowl.
• Cream softened butter and softened brown butter with sugar in the bottom of a stand mixer over a medium-high speed until combined, about three minutes. Reduce speed to low and add eggs one at a time, until each is incorporated. Add vanilla.
• With the mixer on low, add flour and buttermilk in three batches, alternating first with the flour and then buttermilk. Mix until combined.
• Arrange pears in the bottom of the greased cake pan. Pour the caramel over.
• Working carefully, dollop the batter over the pear mixture and spread the batter carefully and evenly over the pears, making sure not to move the pears.
• Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a wooden skewer comes out with just a few crumbs attached.