Pear Upside-Down Banana Cake

Ingredients

• ¾ teaspoon baking soda
• 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• ²/₃ cup granulated sugar
• 1 large egg
• ¹/₈ teaspoon salt
• ¼ cup butter or stick margarine, softened
• ½ cup mashed ripe banana (about 1 medium)
• + 4 more ingredients
• • ¼ cup firmly packed brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon butter or stick margarine, melted
  • 2 cups thinly sliced peeled red pear (about 1 1/2 small pears)
  • ¼ cup low-fat buttermilk

Coat bottom of a 9-inch round cake pan with melted butter. Sprinkle with brown sugar, and arrange pear slices over sugar in an overlapping pattern. Beat 1/4 cup butter at medium speed of an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add 2/3 cup granulated sugar, beating well. Add egg and banana, beat...

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