Good Morning! I thought it was time for another new cake recipe from Shivaay Delights! I wanted to treat ourselves as we have been really good with our new healthy found diet. I still used a low fat butter spread which was lovely in this!
So apart from the sugar that I also reduced, the recipe is not extremely fattening!
I love upside down cakes and prefer making the caramel topping in the oven! Saves on washing lol! And the whole house is set off with the brown sugary sweet aroma, followed by the scent of juicy pears being permeated by this buttery caramel!
I wanted to achieve not a sponge cake risen base but more a sponge flan base. By beating the eggs and butter together really achieved this. A very velvety texture on the tongue with sweetness and a little sharpness from the pear provides us with a great combination! My little one thought that the caramel topping was chocolate and it went down even faster! Lol!
Have a wonderful day! Enjoy…what are you cooking today?
Much love D x
INGREDIENTS
For the caramel and topping
3 heaped tbsp dark muscavado sugar
2 tbsp unsalted butter
3-4 small pears, peeled, cored & thinly sliced
For the cake base
200g self raising flour
¼ tsp baking powder
½ tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp mixed spice
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
40g light brown sugar
40g caster sugar
2 large eggs
100g butter/low fat butter spread
METHOD
• Preheat oven to 180°c/350°f. Put the unsalted butter and 3 tablespoons of muscavado sugar in a greased cake tin
• Place in the oven for 8-10 minutes until the sugar has started to melt into the butter. You may need to add a tablespoon of water to the caramel and stir
• Carefully arrange the thin pear slices onto the caramel and set aside
• Whilst the caramel is cooking in the oven. Beat together the butter and eggs together until combined
• Throw in all the dry ingredients plus the milk and vanilla extract, mix well. The batter should be of a drop like consistency, if not then add a little more milk
• Pour in the batter over the pear and caramel, with a spatula level out
• Place in the oven for 35-45 minutes until a skewer comes out clean when poked into the cake
• Leave the cake to rest in the tin for 10 minutes. Slowly invert cake out onto a large dish
Serve warm with a little vanilla ice cream
Shivaay Delights 
That looks amazing! I think its important that you treat yourself now and again!!
Thank you Jacqui! Your so spot on about treating ourselves. But I have to be careful as with Christmas I may get carried away with the stunning recipes that all my beautiful fellow blogger friends are posting! 😉 x
Mmm, looks delicious! Is this the Hugh F-T recipe? I saw him do something similar ages ago, have never found it since but have always wanted to try it!
Thank you! No I made up the recipe as I went along it’s a Dimple @ Shivaay Delights recipe 😉 do let know what you think when you make it x
Brilliant! My list of indulgent foods to make is ever-expanding in the run up to Christmas… 🙂
Mine tooo. I just love Christmas ♡
That looks wonderful! I make a caramel apple upside down cake so I know how good yours with pears must taste.
Thank you so much! Have you posted your recipe? I will have to try with apples next time 🙂
I have not posted my recipe on my blog, but it is available in my Kindle book Have Yourself a Healthy Little Holiday.
LOVE the way this looks Dimple! So scrumptious!!
Thank you dear Lydia! It worked out ok. I was bracing myself when I let it out of the tin lol 🙂
Delish 🙂
Xxx 🙂
Wow, I LOVE this! Love the use of the pears as well. Kim x http://www.eatsleepbakerepeat.wordpress.com
Thank you Kim! I love your blog…x
Thanks Dimple, I’m glad you like it! X
It looks fabulous, I love the look of the caramelised pear top 👍 xx
This looks great. My husband would love this since it is made with pears. And caramel!!!
Thanks for stopping by.
Thank you so much! I hope you all like it 🙂
Yum! I’d love a slice of that, please. 🙂
I’m sending you a slice over x
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Anything with the word ‘caramel’ in it, I’m in! 😛
The first cake I ever baked was an upside down cake, Dimple. I can’t see one today without smiling. Of course, it was nowhere near as good looking — or I bet tasting — as your beauty here. This looks delicious.
Aww John thank you for sharing your first cake memory with me! That’s lovely! I bet yours was amazing! You must share your recipe if you haven’t already! 🙂
I don’t know about that, Dimple. I was about 14 and used a boxed mix. The recipe was on the box. I sure was proud of it though. 🙂
I made this stunning dessert this afternoon & my mom & dad were over to visit me & we all loved it so much, my dear friend! Divine is the word! xxx
Thank you for your kind words. I’m glad you enjoyed it x
This sounds amazing! I’ve gotta try this some time!
Thanks! It turned out all brown and caramelised. Do let me know what you think 🙂
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What am I cooking today you ask? If shops were open here and I could get my hands on some pears, THIS would be it!! Lol! My eyes widened when I saw this post! Looks so yummy!! 😊
Thank you dear Farianti! It is a nice spring recipe. Hope you have a gorgeous day x
You too Dimple! xx
You do have a sweet tooth!
Yes I do… 😉 but it only made an appearance after I got married lol! Before that I ate so very little…x
I love the way you describe the smell of this in your house. Our flat still smells of vinegar from a pickle I made yesterday, I’m looking forward to counteracting that soon with some baking! Caramelised pears? Sounds lovely…
Ummm I do love pickle…and look forward to you baking all off us, something delicious as always x
I love eating ice cream with something like this. The whole thing just melts in your mouth.
It does indeed 😉 hope you’re well!
Sounds delicious Dimple!!!
Thanks Selma 🙂
I can imagine how delicious this cake must’ve been! Yum. That caramelized topping looks divine. Great recipe Dimple! x
Thank you very much Laura, the brown sugar worked wonders…hope you had a lovely Easter x
You! Again! I wish I had that whole cake here with my coffee!! It looks delicious!
Yes it’s naughty me lol 😉 I’ll send you a whole cake Susan…hope you had a lovely weekend x
Looks fantastic, Dimple! I love the pear in this flan!
Thanks so much Lisa..the pear was really juicy!
fabulous 🙂
Thank you 🙂
That looks soo good! Om nom nom…
This looks heavenly Dimple! I was almost licking the caramel off the screen. :p
I can just see that lol xx hope you’re having a lovely day x
This looks like an amazing result for not a lot of fiddly work. You’ve given us another possibility for he-who-won’t-eat-cake and, if I can make it without eggs, the other he: he-who-would-eat-everything-if-he-could! I hope you don’t mind; you are rapidly becoming a key resource for family cake ideas.
Oh no! That makes me extremely happy..Hope the both he’s/men in your life love the cakes x
I have been wanting to make an upside down cake for ages now! I like the idea of using pears. Keeping this recipe to make for the next cake! 🙂
Ooh, I love pears and this cake looks so decadent with the caramel! What a great recipe, Dimple!
Wow, this looks so delicious! I’ve had some upside down cakes before, but nothing as unique as this! 😀
It’s always time for a shivaaydelights’s recipe! I love upside-down cake, in my opinion the sweetness of the caramel together with the fruit is amazing! I’ve never tried to do it with pears, but I already know that I’m going to adore it!
I’m always so impressed with people who can bake, and bake well. You have that talent, Dimple. Everything you bake is always so beautiful, so perfect… I broke out in a cold sweat when I was reading how you wanted to achieve a sponge flan base…knowing full well that I wouldn’t have a clue. But you just do it flawlessly without batting an eye… This looks absolutely delicious.. and it brought a smile to my face when I read about your little one thinking the caramel was chocolate… so sweet. xx
Thank you Prudy. To be honest with you, it is a only recently that I’ve started baking and I do enjoy it. It’s the best part of blogging for me..But not for my waist line lol 😉
Oh this looks delicious and beautiful, upside down cakes are very tricky 🙂
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I just made my first pineapple upside down cake. This recipe looks so delicious that it will probably be my second upside down cake 🙂 thank you for sharing!
Excellent..Thank you..Have you posted your pineapple cake recipe..I would love to make it!
What a beautiful cake. It’s just screaming out for some vanilla ice cream or whipped cream! I recently bought a spring-form pan – I’m going to have to try this!
Nice recipe looks yumm
I made an upside down pear cake just yesterday… love to be in the same mood with you!
looks so good! I might make this for thanksgiving!
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Looks so good gonna try this with pears
Thank you so much…It’s awesome with pears