pear walnut upside-down cake

How To Make pear walnut upside-down cake

• Step 1
  Heat oven to 300 degress. Grease 9" round cake pan and line bottom with parchment paper.
• Step 2
  Topping: Pour melted butter over bottom of pan and swirl to evenly coat.
• Step 3
  Combine sugar and cornstarch and sprinkle evenly over melted butter.
• Step 4
  Peel, halve and core pears. Cut pear halves into 4 wedges each. Arrange pears in circular pattern and around cake pan with tapered ends pointing inward. Place two small wedges in center.
• Step 5
  Cake: Pulse walnuts, flour, baking powder and baking soda in food processor until walnuts are finely ground, 8 to 10 pulses. Transfer walnut mixture to bowl.
• Step 6
  Process eggs and sugar until very pale yellow. With processor running, add melted butter and oil in steady stream until incorporated.
• Step 7
  Add walnut mixture and pulse to combine.
• Step 8
  Pour batter evenly over pears.
• Step 9
  Bake 40 minutes, rotate pan, bake additional 30 minutes.
• Step 10
  Let cool in pan 15 minutes. Remove from pan and cool.
• Step 11
  Enjoy!
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