If you’ve had our Tennessee Peach Pudding before, then you know you’re in for a treat with this autumnal version. It’s the same basic concept – a simple cakey fruit-studded self-saucing baked pudding – but in this one there are sweet, tender pears in a cinnamon and nutmeg spiced filling with a buttery caramel sauce that bubbles up around it. (In other words, it’s totally and absolutely delicious.)

Here’s how it works.

You peel and chop some pears…

And fold them into a batter of some usual baking suspects – flour, sugar, baking powder, milk – and some vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg for good measure. You spread that into a baking dish…

And mix together some brown sugar and butter with some boiling water until everything has come together in a nice caramelly sauce. You pour that over the top…

And as it bakes, the filling and the topping kind of mingle together, so the caramel sauce surrounds everything in sweet, buttery richness.

Yeah.

A little ice cream wouldn’t be amiss. But you don’t need it.

Not with that sticky sweet sauce hanging around those tender, spiced pears. That’s all you’ll ever need.