Pear Buckwheat Pancakes with Pear Caramel Sauce

Perhaps I should have featured this pear dish first - breakfast. However, it is sweet enough to be served as a dessert as well, but dessert will follow tomorrow. This recipe is spiced pear buckwheat pancakes with pear caramel sauce and mascarpone cream. The pancake recipe is a basic buttermilk pancake recipe, with the addition of a little buckwheat flour for some extra heartiness and some chopped pear into the batter. They are then topped with a sweet, decadent pear caramel sauce - which is basically a caramel sauce made with honey and candied ginger, with again some chopped pear. Alternately, a pear compote could be used instead. The pancakes are then topped with some mascarpone cream, which is really simply a mixture of mascarpone cheese and heavy cream whipped together with a little lemon zest. For an attractive presentation, use a long plate and layer the pancakes on the plate. Drizzle with the caramel sauce and top each pancake with a swirl of the cream and a twirl of lemon zest.