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Upside Down Apple Cake

Author: From Delish.com

Ingredients

• FOR THE APPLES:

• 3/4 cup lightly packed brown sugar

• 1/4 cup butter

• 1 tsp. vanilla extract

• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon

• pinch kosher salt

• 2 apples, peeled, cored and sliced 1/2″ thick

• FOR THE CAKE:

• 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour

• 3/4 tsp. baking powder

• 2 tsp. ground cinnamon

• 1/2 tsp. kosher salt

• 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter softened

• 1 cup sugar

• 1/2 cup lightly packed brown sugar

• 2 large eggs

• 1 tsp. vanilla extract

• 3/4 cup milk

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease with butter and dust with flour an 8″ round cake pan. (I used a springform pan, but some of the butter leaked causing spillage in the oven. If you use a springform pan, place it on a cookie sheet with a sheet of aluminum foil, or parchment paper underneath it.)

2. In a small saucepan over medium heat melt brown sugar, butter, vanilla, cinnamon, and salt.

3. Cook until slightly thickened, about two minutes.

4. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder cinnamon, salt and nutmeg.

5. In another large bowl, using a mixer, beat together butter and sugars until softened.

6. Add eggs one at a time. then add vanilla.

7. Add half the dry ingredients to wet ingredients, beating until just combined.

8. Pour in milk and mix until fully incorporated.

9. Add remaining dry ingredients and stir until just combined.

10. Pour batter over apples and bake until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean 1 hour.

11. Let cool in pan 15 minutes, then invert onto a cooling rack and let cool completely before slicing.