Pear Upside Down Cake – Vegan Gluten Free

Author Diana Herrington

Gluten free, dairy & egg free

I heard my sister had made a pear upside down cake last fall from the pears I gave her so I got down to making up my recipe without all the ingredients that would usually go in.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup rice syrup
1 tsp molasses

Mix together the next 4 ingredients for a gluten free flour mix:
1 cup brown rice flour
1/2 cup potato flour
1/2 cup flax meal
1/4 cup white rice flour

1/2 tsp Guar Gum
5 Tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp sea salt
2/3 cup water
1 cup sliced pears for bottom
1 tsp arrowroot
3 tsp fresh ginger grated

Directions:

1.   Preheat oven to 350º F.
2.   Oil 8” X 8”cake pan.
3.   Slice 2 cups of pears.
4.   Arrange pears into bottom of cake pan.
5.   Sprinkle pears with arrowroot.
6.   Sprinkle ginger over the pears.
7.   Mix vegetable oil, rice syrup, molasses, stevia and salt.
8.   Add 1 cup of gluten free flour, mix in well.
9.   Add 1/3 cup water, mix in well.
10.   Add 1 cup of gluten free flour, mix in well.
11.   Add 1/3 cup water, mix in well.
12.   Add 1/4 cup of gluten free flour, baking powder and guar gum.
13.   Mix in well and quickly.
14.   Immediately pour batter into cake pan on top of the pear mixture.
15.   Spread the batter evenly over the pears.
16.   Bake at 350º F. oven for 30 to 35 minutes.
17.   Leave cake in pan for 5 minutes on a cooling rack; it is too light and fragile to turn over. Once it cools a bit it will become firmer and easier to turn over.
18.   Gently turn cake over onto a cooling rack. (loosen the edges of the cake with a knife first.) It is important to get it out of the pan as the pears on the bottom will make a soggy cake if you do not.