Pear Gingerbread Pudding

By The Canadian Living Test Kitchen

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Pear Gingerbread Pudding
Photography by Matthew Kimura

This recipe makes 6 servings

Nutritional Info
Per serving: about	-
cal	357357 cal
pro	3 g3g pro
total fat	17 g17g total fat
sat. fat	10 g10g sat. fat
carb	51 g51g carb
fibre	2 g2g fibre
chol	79 mg79mg chol
sodium	271 mg271mg sodium
% RDI:	-
calcium	55 calcium
iron	1313 iron
vit A	1616 vit A
vit C	33 vit C
folate	1212 folate

This warm pudding uses fancy instead of cooking molasses for a delicate, light molasses flavour.

Ingredients

2 pears , peeled, cored and cubed2 2pearpears, peeled, cored and cubed
2 tbsp liquid honey 2 2tbsp tbspliquid honey
Gingerbread Topping:
1/2 cup butter , softened1/2 1/2cup cupbutter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/2 1/2cup cupgranulated sugar
1/4 cup fancy molasses 1/4 1/4cup cupfancy molasses
1 egg 1 1eggeggs
3/4 cup all-purpose flour 3/4 3/4cup cupall-purpose flour
1 tsp ground ginger 1 1tsp tspground ginger
1 tsp cinnamon 1 1tsp tspcinnamon
1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 1/2tsp tspbaking soda
1/4 tsp ground cloves 1/4 1/4tsp tspground cloves
1 pinch salt 1 1pinch pinchsalt
2/3 cup hot water 2/3 2/3cup cuphot water

Preparation

Spread pears in greased 8-inch (2 L) glass baking dish; drizzle with honey. Set aside.

Gingerbread Topping: In large bowl, beat butter with sugar until fluffy; beat in molasses and egg until combined. in separate bowl, whisk together flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, cloves and salt ; stir into molasses mixture alternately with hot water, making 3 additions of dry ingredients and 2 of water. Pour over pears.

Bake in centre of 350°F (180°C) oven until cake tester inserted in centre comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Serve warm.

Source : Canadian Living Magazine: October 2004

Keywords : Dessert; Pears; Bake; Butter; Sugar;

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