Gingerbread With Pears Low Fat Low Calorie Recipes

Steps:

• Toss chopped pears with sugar, ginger, and cloves in a large bowl. Set aside and let the sugar dissolve in the pear juices.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease an 8x4-inch loaf pan.
• Stir vegetable oil, vanilla extract, and eggs into the pears. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Add the flour mixture to the pear mixture and stir gently just to combine. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 40 minutes.

Steps:

• In a big bowl. beat butter, brown sugar, egg.
• Fill a one cup measuring cup with 1/4 cup blackstrap molasses. Then continue to fill the measuring cup to the 2/3 cup mark, with honey. Add to butter, sugar and egg. Mix well.
• Grate chunk of ginger -about 2 tbsp-, then add to bowl and mix.
• Sift dry ingredients into the big bowl and mix well.
• Chill dough for 2 hours.
• Roll out 1/4-inch thick and cut into shapes. Bake 8-10 minutes.

Steps:

• Partially fill a bowl with water and add lemon juice. Peel the pears and cut them into quarters. Chop 2 pears into a small dice & place the pieces in the lemon water. Slice each quarter of the 3rd pear in 4 long pieces. Place them in the water.
• Heat oven to 350ºF. Coat a 9"-X-13" baking dish with cooking spray & dust lightly with flour.
• Combine the oil, egg, buttermilk and molasses in medium bowl.
• In a large bowl, whisk the flours, Splenda, baking powder & soda, salt, cinnamon, ground ginger & cloves. Add the wet ingredients & mix gently.
• Drain the pears and set long slices aside. Stir the chopped pear pieces & the chopped ginger into the batter.
• Pour batter into prepared pan. Arrange long pear slices on top & sprinkle with brown sugar.
• Bake for 25 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.