Upside-Down Cake {With Any Fruit}
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 12
 
Learn how to make an upside-down cake with nearly any kind of seasonal fruit. Think plums, peaches, berries and pineapple in summer; apples, pears and oranges in the fall.
You will need:
  • For the topping,
  • Butter - ¼ cup , melted
  • Brown sugar - ¼ cup
  • Fruit - 3 cups, sliced or chopped (specifically, I used 4 plumcots in this cake)
  • For the cake,
  • All purpose flour - 2 cups
  • Baking powder - 1 tsp
  • Salt - ½ tsp
  • Cinnamon or cardamom powder - ½ tsp, optional (use with fruits like apples, pears and bananas)
  • Butter - ¾ cup, softened
  • Sugar - ⅔ cup
  • Eggs - 2, large
  • Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
  • Milk - ½ cup
  • Lemon or orange zest - 1 tsp, optional (goes well with berries and citrus fruit)
How to:
  1. Pre-heat the oven to 350 deg.F. Grease and flour a 9" round cake pan. Line bottom of pan with parchment paper.
  2. Pour the melted butter in the pan. Scatter the brown sugar over it. Try to do this as evenly as possible so that all the bottom of the cake pan is covered.
  3. Arrange the fruit slices in a concentric pattern. Arrange fruit slices closely as they will shrink ever so slightly as they bake. Set pan aside as you prep the batter.
  4. Sift together the dry ingredients in a bowl. Set side.
  5. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy, around 2 minutes. Add eggs and beat till well combined. Add vanilla extract, milk and zest (if using) and mix well to combine.
  6. Add the sifted dry ingredients and milk alternately, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Mix until just combined. Do not over-mix. Batter will be thick.
  7. Pour this batter carefully over the fruit slices in the pan. Smooth the top with a spatula and bake for 35-40 minutes or till the cake passes the toothpick test.
  8. Remove cake from oven and cool in pan for 5 minutes. Loosen the edges of the cake with a knife or thin spatula. Invert the cake onto a cake stand or serving platter. Cool slightly, slice and serve cake warm or at room temperature. Add a dollop of whipped cream on each slice.
  9. Store leftovers in a sealed container in the fridge. Cake can be reheated lightly in the microwave before serving.
Recipe by At The Corner of Happy And Harried at https://www.happyandharried.com/2016/03/22/upside-down-cake-with-any-fruit/