Pear Cream Breakfast Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (29 ounce) can pears in heavy syrup, undrained
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup apricot preserves
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1 (9 ounce) package yellow cake mix
1/2 cup reserved pear syrup
2 tablespoons oil
1 egg
1 teaspoon ground ginger

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Drain pears, reserving 1/2 cup of syrup.
Slice pears; place on bottom of 8-inch square baking pan.
Beat cream cheese, preserves and butter in mixing bowl at medium speed until well blended; pour over pears.
Beat cake mix, reserved syrup, oil, egg and ginger in large mixing bowl at low speed until well blended and pour over cream cheese mixture, Bake 35-40 minutes or until golden brown.
Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar if desired.