Apple Upside-Down Cake

My mom calls this an apple cake-pie, but I don't know why. She has been making it since I was a kid. It's delicious! The hardest part is peeling and cutting the apples, which I hate. I mean, really hate it. Like, if you want to come over and peel and cut the apples I will make you this cake and we can each eat half!






Apple Upside-Down Cake

Ingredients:
  • 3 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced
  • 2 T soft butter
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar
  • big pinch of cinnamon
  • 1 c flour
  • 2/3 c sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 1/4 cup shortening
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 cup milk (I actually didn't have enough milk, so I used a little milk and the rest plain yogurt, with no discernible difference.)
Method:
  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  • Spread butter into bottom and sides of a pie plate. Sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon.
  • Layer the sliced apples in the pan. You can lay the apples in the pan all pretty and layered so that when you flip it out it looks professional, OR you can just throw them in which is a lot quicker.
  • Put all of the rest of the ingredients in a bowl, and mix them in an electric mixer for about 2 minutes.
  • Pour batter over apples and bake at 350 for 40-45 minutes.
  • Remove from oven and cool for 5 minutes. Run a knife around the side of the plate, and carefully dump over onto the serving plate.
  • Serve hot or at room temp with ice cream or whipped cream.



 

What did you think of this article?




Trackbacks
  • No trackbacks exist for this post.
Comments

  • September 24, 2007 11:28 AM Alec wrote:
    I was going to offer that I come over and offer to peel apples, but then I thought it would be rude not to warn you that I would just bring my Apple Peeler-Corer - you can peel AND core the apple in about 15 seconds.

    We got ours as a gift, I think you can get 'em at Williams Sonoma or some other fancy shop like that.
    Reply to this
  • October 21, 2007 2:34 PM Heather wrote:
    ha ha. I was going to say the same thing. I'm married to that guy above.
    Reply to this
Leave a comment

Submitted comments are subject to moderation before being displayed.

 Name

 Email (will not be published)

 Website

Your comment is 0 characters limited to 3000 characters.