PEAR UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE

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Discover a sweet and fruity dessert that the whole crowd will love with our Pear Upside-Down Cake recipe. This Pear Upside-Down Cake is a pound cake-like confection featuring fresh pear, pumpkin spice and cranberries!

Provided by My Food and Family

Time 55m

Yield 16 servings

Number Of Ingredients 10

Ingredients

3 fresh pears (1 lb.), peeled
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1 pkg. (2-layer size) yellow cake mix
1 pkg. (3.4 oz.) JELL-O Vanilla Flavor Instant Pudding
4 eggs
1-1/4 cups water
1/4 cup oil
2 cups thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping

Steps:

Heat oven to 350ºF.
Cut pears lengthwise in half; remove cores, then cut pears lengthwise into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Arrange on bottom of 13x9-inch pan sprayed with cooking spray. Combine sugar and spice; sprinkle over pears. Top with cranberries.
Beat next 5 ingredients with mixer until blended; pour over ingredients in pan.
Bake 35 min. or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean and cake begins to pull away from sides of pan. Cool 10 min. Run knife around edges of pan to loosen cake. Place large platter over cake; invert cake onto platter. Gently remove pan. Cool cake slightly. Serve topped with COOL WHIP.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 180, Fat 7 g, SaturatedFat 2.5 g, TransFat 0 g, Cholesterol 45 mg, Sodium 125 mg, Carbohydrate 0 g, Fiber 2 g, Sugar 0 g, Protein 2 g