Pear Gingerbread Pudding

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

By The Canadian Living Test Kitchen
Source: Canadian Living Magazine: October 2004
Portion size 6

Ingredients
2 pears, peeled, cored and cubed
2 tbsp (30 mL) liquid honey

Gingerbread Topping:
1/2 cup (114 g) butter, softened
1/2 cup (100 g) granulated sugar
1/4 cup (88 g) fancy molasses
1 egg [55 g]
3/4 cup (100 g) all-purpose flour
1 tsp (5 mL) ground ginger
1 tsp (5 mL) cinnamon
1/2 tsp (2 mL) baking soda
1/4 tsp (1 mL) ground cloves
1 pinch salt
2/3 cup (150 mL) hot 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.

Nutritional Information Per serving: about
cal 357 pro 3g total fat 17g sat. fat 10g 
carb 51g fibre 2g chol 79mg sodium 271mg 
% RDI:
calcium 5 iron 13 vit A 16 vit C 3 
folate 12

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