Pear and Vanilla Upside Down Pancake

By lisajesselson

A wonderful take on the decadent Apple Pancake tradition.

Ingredients

• 1 vanilla bean split
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2/3 cup flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 stick unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/2 firm ripe pears
• 1 TBS lemon juice

Preparation

Step 1

preheat oven to 400
scrape seeds into sugar and mix well
sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, 1 TBS vanilla sugar together
in 10 in. skillet, melt butter on low
remove butter
whisk butter, milk, eggs, 1 TBS melted butter into flour mix
let stand 5 min.
add slices of pear to vanilla sugar with lemon juice and arrange in buttered skillet
cook 8 min. until caramel in color
bake at 400 for 15 min.
pour batter over pears and bake at 350 for 15 min.
immediately flip onto plate and serve