Caramel Apple Upside Down Cake

Serve this warm Caramel Apple Upside Down Cake à la Mode for a crowd-pleasing finish to a delicious meal on a cool winter day. Much like the summer version (Pineapple Upside Down Cake), this dessert not only tastes great, it will make your kitchen smell amazing, and it also has a nice presentation: the pan you bake it in!

Prep: 30 minutes | Bake: 25-30 minutes | Total: 55-60 minutes

Yields: 1 Cake

Ingredients

For The Apple Layer

3-4 apples

1/4 cup unsalted butter + 1 tbsp

1/4 cup brown sugar

2 tsp ground cinnamon

lemon juice

For The Cake

1/3 cup unsalted butter, room temperature

5 Tbsp brown sugar

3 eggs

3 Tbsp sour cream

Grated peel of 1 orange

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 tsp baking powder

1 cup all purpose flour

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

For The Drizzle

Caramel Sauce

This recipe was developed specifically for use with our Brookline Baker Pan.

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Butter a Brookline Baker pan.

Clean apples, slice them (you should have 7 thin discs) and sprinkle lemon juice over each disc. Remove the core, chop the rest of apples and set them aside.

Melt the butter in a sauce pan. Add brown sugar and cook until sugar dissolves and mixture turns golden brown, add cinnamon. Pour the mixture in the prepared Brookline Baker pan and arrange the apple discs. Set aside.

Start preparing the cake batter by separating egg whites from the egg yolks.

Whisk together the flour and baking powder in a small bowl and set aside.

In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar and spices until well mixed. Beat in the egg yolks, sour cream, lemon zest and vanilla extract. Stir in flour mixture and mix well.

Whip egg whites until very stiff and firm. Fold them into the butter mixture, add chopped apples.

Pour the batter over the apple discs and bake for 25-30 minutes until golden and a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.

Remove the cake from the oven and let it stand for about 5 minutes. Run a knife around the edges of the cake to loosen it from the sides of the baker, invert the cake onto plate and transfer back to the Brookline Baker.

Drizzle with caramel. Enjoy!

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