How to Make Yummy Tinklee's Spicy Pear Cake

Tinklee's Spicy Pear Cake.

You can cook Tinklee's Spicy Pear Cake using 27 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Tinklee's Spicy Pear Cake

1. It's of CAKE.
2. Prepare 2 1/2 cup of flour.
3. You need 1 tsp of baking soda.
4. You need 1 1/2 tsp of cinnamon.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of ground ginger.
6. It's 1/2 tsp of cloves.
7. You need 1/2 tsp of nutmeg.
8. Prepare 1 pinch of of cayenne pepper.
9. It's 1 1/2 cup of packed brown sugar.
10. Prepare 1 cup of butter.
11. Prepare 1 tbsp of vanilla.
12. It's 3 of eggs.
13. It's 3/4 cup of molasses.
14. Prepare 1 cup of buttermilk.
15. It's of Bottom/Topping.
16. You need 12 tbsp of melted butter.
17. It's 1 1/3 cup of packed brown sugar.
18. You need 1 tsp of cinnamon.
19. Prepare 1/2 tsp of ginger powder.
20. It's 1/4 tsp of cloves.
21. Prepare 1/4 tsp of nutmeg.
22. It's 1 pinch of of cayenne pepper.
23. You need 4 large of pears, peeled and sliced (3/4" thick).
24. Prepare of pear sauce.
25. It's 1 1/2 of pureed pears (from what you have leftover).
26. It's 1/4 cup of packed brown sugar.
27. Prepare 2 tbsp of melted butter.

Tinklee's Spicy Pear Cake step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350F, grease 2- 9" pans on their sides only.
2. toppong/bottom: place half of butter in each pan ( this will 2/3cup for each pan), put in oven and melt butter.
3. add brown sugar and spices mixing well and spread sugar mixture across bottom of pan.
4. arrange prars in a nice pattern, set pans a side.
5. cake: in a separate bowl mix flour, baking soda and all spices, I sift mine to remove any lumps, make sure you still mix them together though.
6. cream butter, sugar and vanilla, then add your eggs one at a time mixing between each egg, then add your molasses.
7. now starting with your dry ingredients alternative with the buttermilk, ending with your dry, and mix.
8. divide batter between the 2 pans.
9. bake for 30-35 mins, once out of oven turn your first one over onto your cake pan, then turn out second one on top (note: try to line up real well, once it is in place it will stay where it is.
10. can be served with pear sauce.
11. pear sauce: puree leftover pears, add brown sugar, melted butter, then heat up till just warm and spoon over each slice before serving, I like to add a dollop of whip cream also.