Upside Down Cranberry-asian Pear Star Anise Cake Recipe

Upside down Cranberry-Asian Pear Star Anise Cake

From midgelet 15 years ago

Simply Mings recipe for a fabulous flavor for this upside down cake. Asian Pears can be substituted with another fruit indeed!

Preheat oven to 325 degrees convection or 350 standard.
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.
Add eggs one at a time, allowing each to fully incorporate before adding the next, and scraping continually.
Meanwhile, in a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and kosher salt.
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.
Remove from heat. Arrange Asian pear slices in an overlapping layer on bottom of pan.
Spoon cranberry sauce evenly over Asian pears. Spread cake batter evenly over cranberries.
Bake in center of oven until top springs back when touched with fingertip, about 30-40 minutes convection or 40-50 minutes standard oven.
Remove from oven and let cool on a rack for about 5-10 minutes before inverting onto a serving plate.
Serve with ice cream.
*to make ground star anise, toast whole star anise in a dry pan until fragrant.
Let cool and grind to a powder in a spice grinder.
Sift ground star anise and use the finely ground product to in the recipe.

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huxter 14 years ago
A friend of ours cooked a similar dish last week but with ginger .Now I'm going to impress them with yours ,so thanks very much ,it sounds delicious !
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andypandy 14 years ago
Watched Ming do this on tv, and looks so good nice and moist cake. I will be making this one soon for my family. Thanks for posting the recipe as I couldn't find it on his site.
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" It was excellent "
herby ate it and said...
If this is anything like pineapple upside down cake, I'd love it!
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If this is anything like pineapple upside down cake, I'd love it!

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