Apple Upside Down Cake
– a delicious old fashioned apple dessert with sweet cinnamon and
caramel-like flavors. It’s a simple yet seriously satisfying cake topped
with fresh apples and no frosting is needed.
Apple Upside Down Cake
- Servings: 9
- Prep Time 25 minutes
- Cook Time 40 minutes
- Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Ingredients
Topping
- 3/4 cup (150g) packed light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup (56g) unsalted butter, melted
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 2 medium golden delicious apples*, peeled, cored and sliced into 1/2-inch thick wedges
- 2 tsp lemon juice
Cake
- 1 1/2 cups (212g) all-purpose flour (scoop and level to measure)
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup (113g) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 3/4 cup (150g) granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2/3 cup buttermilk or milk, at room temperature
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9 by 9-inch square dish well with non-stick cooking spray.
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For the topping: In a medium mixing bowl stir together brown sugar, melted butter, cinnamon nutmeg and salt. Spread evenly into greased baking dish.
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Toss apples with lemon juice (I just do this on the cutting board I cut them on). Align apples in rows over brown sugar layer. Set aside.
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In a medium mixing bowl whisk together flour, baking powder and salt, set aside.
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In a mixing bowl using an electric hand mixer (or in a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment) cream together butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Mix in eggs one at a time, scrape down bowl, then blend in vanilla.
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Add 1/3 of the flour mixture to the butter sugar mixture and mix until combined. Add in 1/2 of the buttermilk and mix. Mix in another 1/3 flour mixture, then remaining 1/2 buttermilk. Finish by mixing in last 1/3 of the flour mixture. Scape down bowl and fold batter to ensure ingredients are evenly incorporated.
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Spread batter over apple layer in baking dish. Bake in preheated oven until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean, about 35 - 45 minutes. Let cool 15 minutes on a wire rack.
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Run knife around edges of cake to ensure it's loosened then invert onto a platter. Cut into slices and serve warm with vanilla ice cream if desired.
Recipe Notes
- *Gala apples would be another good option if the store doesn't have golden delicious apples stocked.
- **An electric hand mixer works great too for this recipe too. Just be sure to whip butter and sugar until pale and fluffy which takes about twice as long with a hand mixer.
