Warm Pear Gingerbread

Ingredients

1½ cups unbleached flour
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground allspice
½ tsp ground cloves
½ cups shredded yellow squash
¾ cup Wax Orchards Fruit Sweet
1/3 cup prune puree
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 egg whites, lightly beaten
1 cup pears, peeled, cored, and diced
Vegetable cooking spray

Preparation

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Combine flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, and cloves in a large bowl and stir well. Add squash, stir well and make a well in the center of the mixture.
3. Combine fruit sweet, prune puree, vanilla and egg whites; stir well. Add to dry ingredients, stirring until just moistened. Quickly stir in the diced pears.
4. Pour into a 9-inch cake pan coated well with cooking spray.
5. Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the center. Cool in pan for 10 minutes on a wire rack; remove from pan, and cool completely on rack.