You're Up Early! Oven-baked Pear Pancakes

If you're the first one up and want to spoil everyone else in the house, make these. You can whip them up quickly and then relax with the newspaper (and/or legos). Waking up to a house which smells curiously of apple pie will start everyone's day off on the right foot.

You're Up Early! Oven-baked Pear Pancakes
slightly adapted from Real Simple
serves 4

Ingredients
2  pears
1/2  c date sugar (or table sugar)
1/4  c spelt flour (or all-purpose flour)
3 eggs
1 c whole milk
2  t vanilla
1 T unsalted butter, melted
sea salt
1/2  t ground cinnamon
2 t sugar

Directions
Heat oven to 400º F.

Lightly coat a 9-inch pie plate with olive oil. Slice pear thinly. arrange them in the pie plate.

Combine 1/2 cup minus 2 tablespoons sugar, flour, eggs, whole milk, vanilla, unsalted butter, and a pinch of salt in a blender. Pulse until smooth, about 30 seconds.

Pour over the pears. Place in the oven and bake until springy to the touch, 25 to 30 minutes. Remove from oven. Heat broiler. Sprinkle the pancake with ground cinnamon and the 2 tablespoons sugar.

Broil until browned, about 1 minute. Serve warm.

This custardy, non-traditional pancake would be great addition to a potluck brunch and can definitely be eaten for dessert. Just add ice cream.