Sticky Pear Pudding With Caramel Sauce

16
Ingredients

15m
Prep Time

1h
Cook Time

1h 15m
Ready In

Recipe: #24534

July 30, 2016

Categories: Desserts, Cashew Nut, Pear, Oven Bake Gluten-Free, Vegetarian, Canned Fruit, Sugar, Kosher Dairy, more

recipe by:
ImPat

"Looks like a delicious looking dessert from Super Food Ideas. PAN SIZE - they used a 5 cup capacity metal dish with a top measurement of 22.5cm and recommended that you could use a ceramic dish however the cooking time may be slightly longer."

Original is 6 servings

Metric US

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Nutritional

Serving Size: 1 (325.9 g)
Calories 692.4
Total Fat - 33.3 g
Saturated Fat - 19.2 g
Cholesterol - 119.8 mg
Sodium - 307.4 mg
Total Carbohydrate - 96.9 g
Dietary Fiber - 6.5 g
Sugars - 68.8 g
Protein - 7.1 g
Calcium - 104.5 mg
Iron - 1.5 mg
Vitamin C - 34.6 mg
Thiamin - 0.1 mg

Step 1

Preheat oven to 170C/150C fan forced.

Step 2

Grease a 4 cm deep, 18 cm round (base measurement) metal pie dish (see note in intro).

Step 3

Drain pears and place on paper towel to remove excess moisture and set aside 6 pear halves and roughly chop THE REMAINDER of the pear halves.

Step 4

Place butter, sugar, golden syrup and milk in a saucepan over medium heat and cook, stirring, for 4 to 5 minutes or until sugar dissolves and bring to the boil and remove from heat and stir in bicarbonate of soda and set aside for 10 minutes to cool slightly.

Step 5

Whisk flour, ginger, cinnamon and egg into cooled mixture and stir in chopped pear and pour into prepared dish.

Step 6

Arrange 6 pear halves, cut side up, on top of mixture (DO NOT PUSH INTO THE MIXTURE).

Step 7

Bake for 20 minutes and then sprinkle with cashews and then return to oven and bake for a further 30 to 35 minutes or until top is just firm to the touch (cover top loosely with foil if over browning during the cooking process)

Step 8

Stand for 10 minutes.

Step 9

Meanwhile make Caramel Sauce - Place sugar, butter and cream in a saucepan over medium heat and cook, stirring occasionally for 5 to 6 minutes or until mixture is smooth.