Foodista | Recipes, Cooking Tips, and Food News | Pear-ginger upside-down cake

Ingredients

• 3 tbs butter, at room temperature
• ¼ cup Demerara sugar
• 1 ½ tsp ground cinnamon
• 4-5 medium to large ripe pears, peeled, cored, and quartered lengthwise
• For the batter:
• 8 ounces butter, at room temperature
• ½ cup Demerara sugar
• 2 tbs peeled, grated ginger
• 3 eggs
• 5 tbs maple syrup or honey
• ¼ cup Muscovado sugar
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 ½ tsp baking powder
• 1 ½ tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 ½ cups buttermilk