Chocolate & Pear Upside-Down Cake
- 1/4 cup non-hydrogenated margarine, melted
- 2/3 cup brown sugar blend sugar replacement, packed, divided
- 2 large fresh pears, peeled, thinly sliced Safeway 1 lb For $1.88 thru 02/09
- 1 cup Philadelphia Light Cream Cheese Product
- 4 each egg whites
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 2/3 cup fat-free sour cream
- 2 squares Baker's Semi-Sweet Chocolate, finely chopped
- Brush margarine onto bottoms of 2 (9-inch) springform pans (or onto bottom of 1 9-inch springform pan for trial recipe).
- Sprinkle each with 1 Tbsp.
- (15 mL) sugar replacement.
- Arrange pear slices, in circular pattern, over sugar replacement in each pan.
- Beat cream cheese product and remaining sugar replacement with mixer until well blended.
- Add egg whites; beat just until blended.
- Mix flour and baking soda; add to cream cheese mixture alternately with sour cream, mixing after each addition just until blended.
- Stir in chopped chocolate; spread over pears.
- Bake in 350 degrees F standard oven 25 to 30 min.
- or until toothpick inserted in centres comes out clean.
- Cool cakes in pans 10 min.
- Run knife around rims of pans to loosen cakes; remove rims.
- Invert cakes onto plates; remove bottoms of pans.
- Cool cakes completely.
nonhydrogenated margarine, brown sugar, fresh pears, cream cheese, egg whites, flour, baking soda, sour cream, chocolate
Taken from www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/chocolate-pear-upside-down-cake-132837.aspx (may not work)