Patsy Sewell-Mwamba

Come Dine With Me recipes Upside down gingerbread with yoghurt cream sauce recipe

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Date Published:
19/12/2007

Patsy finishes things off with a gingerbread dish to keep everyone smiling

Serves 5

Ingredients

For the gingerbread

  • 120g self-raising flour
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • 1 tsp nutmeg
  • 120g soft brown sugar
  • pinch of cloves
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 120ml black treacle
  • 120ml soured milk
  • 60g shortening, melted

For the topping

  • 60g butter
  • 90-120g soft brown sugar
  • 4 ripe pears or 1 medium tin of pears, drained
  • a few walnuts or pecan nuts

For the yoghurt cream sauce

  • 500ml double cream
  • 500ml plain yoghurt

Method: How to make upside down gingerbread with a yoghurt cream sauce

1. Preheat oven to 180°c.

2. Lightly grease an 8 inch diameter cake tin.

3. First make the topping. Cream the butter, add brown sugar and beat for 1-2 minutes and spread over the base and sides of the tin. Arrange pears around tin with walnuts positioned in between.

4. To make the gingerbread, mix the sifted flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and spices. Mix together egg, sugar, black treacle, soured milk and cooled shortening. Stir into flour mixture, beat hard for 1 minute or until smooth and pour on top of the fruit.

5. Bake in 180°c oven for 40-50 minutes.

6. Turn out onto a serving dish. Serve warm with whipped cream or yoghurt cream sauce.

7. For the yoghurt cream sauce: Whip the cream until it just holds its shape, then stir in the yoghurt.

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