Apple Upside Down Cake
This Apple Upside Down Cake is the perfect dessert for fall. Full of warm, comforting flavors this moist cake is a wonderful way to end a holiday or party.
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Ingredients
Cake Ingredients
- 1.75 cups flour
- 1.5 cups sugar
- 1.5 tsp. baking powder
- 1 Tbsp. cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 3 eggs
- 1 stick of butter, salted and room temp If the butter isn't soft enough you can melt it in the microwave for 15 seconds. Just make sure it isn't hot.
- 3/4 Tbsp. vanilla extract
Apple topping ingredients
- 5-6 apples, peeled and chopped into about 1/2 inch cubes
- 1/2 stick butter, salted
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1 Tbsp. maple syrup
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
- Optional: Lemon and water bath to keep the apples from browning.
Homemade Whipped Cream
- 2 cups of heavy cream, cold
- 3/4 cups of powdered sugar
- 1/2 Tbsp. of vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350.
- Mix together all your dry cake ingredients and mix well.
- Add your milk, eggs, sour cream, butter and vanilla. Mix with a hand mixer on medium. Set aside.
- Peel and chop 5-6 apples into 1/2-inch pieces.
- In a saucepan over medium heat, add butter for apple topping, brown sugar and maple syrup. Combine well.
- Add in chopped apples (if you added them to the water bath, make sure they are well drained), cinnamon and nutmeg. Bring to a boil and then simmer for about 10 minutes.
- Grease a 9-inch round cake pan with butter. I've found that butter works the best for this.
- Add your apple mixture to the pan and make sure the apples cover the bottom of the pan and that they're relatively even.
- Add the cake mixture slowly on top of this. Make sure that the cake mixture is even.
- Add to the oven for 50 minutes. You can check with a toothpick when the time is up. If you think it needs more time you can give it another 5 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let cool completely. You can see in the video I didn't let it cool for time's sake but if you have the time, do it.
- Once cooled, take a knife and go around the cake to make sure the sides aren't sticking. This is very important.
- Then, add a plate or cake stand to the top of the pan and flip it over.
- Carefully remove the pan to reveal the cake.
- For the homemade whipped cream, add all your ingredients together and use a hand mixed to blend them for about 10 minutes. You can also heat up the cake and top it off with ice cream!
- Feel free to sprinkle a little more cinnamon on top of that. :)