Ginger Pear Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

Topping
1 (15 ounce) can pear halves in natural juice, reserve juice
1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon butter, softened
Cake
1 (18 1/4 ounce) yellow cake mix or (18 1/4 ounce) French vanilla cake mix
1 cup sour cream
1/3 cup reserved pear juice
1/3 cup butter, softened
3 eggs
1/3 cup chopped candied ginger
Glaze
1 tablespoon butter, softened
1 cup confectioners' sugar
remaining pear juice

Preparation

Heat oven to 325\u00b0F Grease and sugar a 10 cup bundt pan.
Cut pear halves in half. Decoratively place each pear piece, rounded side down, in pan flutes.
In small bowl, stir together the brown sugar and 1 tablespoon of softened butter until crumbly. Sprinkle brown sugar and butter mixture over the pears.
In a large mixing bowl, combine all cake ingredients; mix on low speed for 30 seconds. Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally.
Spoon cake mixture into prepared pan until 3/4 full.
Bake for 60-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
Cool for 10 minutes exactly, then remove from pan and cool completely on a rack.
While the cake is cooling mix the glaze.
Once the cake is completely cool move it to a platter and add the glaze.