Name: Upside-Down Spiced Apple Cake
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 85 min
Yield: 8-10
Ingredients: 125g unsalted butter, chopped, at room temperature; 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed; 2 tsps vanilla extract; 3 eggs, at room temperature; 2/3 cup milk; 1½ cups self-raising flour; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 1 tsp mixed spice; Cinnamon sugar, to decorate; Custard and ice-cream, to serve; TOPPING; 50g unsalted butter, melted; ½ cup brown sugar, firmly packed; 2 large Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored

Upside-Down Spiced Apple Cake

From New Idea’s Best-Ever Desserts

Serves 8-10

Prep

25M

Cook

Total

1H 25M

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Ingredients

125g unsalted butter, chopped, at room temperature

1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed

2 tsps vanilla extract

3 eggs, at room temperature

2/3 cup milk

1½ cups self-raising flour

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp mixed spice

Cinnamon sugar, to decorate

Custard and ice-cream, to serve

TOPPING

50g unsalted butter, melted

½ cup brown sugar, firmly packed

2 large Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored

Method

Grease a 22cm round cake pan. Line base and side with baking paper, extending paper 2cm above pan edge.

To make topping, pour butter over base of prepared pan. Sprinkle with sugar. Cut apples into 7mm-thick slices. Arrange apple slices, slightly overlapping, in a single layer over base of prepared pan.

Beat butter, sugar and vanilla in a small bowl of an electric mixer until fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until combined. Transfer to a large bowl. Add milk and combined sifted flour, cinnamon and mixed spice, in two batches, stirring until combined. Spoon over apples in pan. Smooth over top.

Cook in a moderately slow oven (160C) for about 1 hour, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Stand cake in pan for 20 minutes. Invert onto a serving plate.

Sprinkle cinnamon sugar over apple topping. Serve warm or cold with custard and ice-cream.

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