Apple Upside Down Cake Recipe with Step by Step Pictures. Delicious vanilla flavoured cake topped with caramelized apples.
Apple Upside Down Cake
I have a love for upside down cakes. have made three upside down cakes so far and this is my 4th one. I will be many more upside down cakes with many more fruits very soon.
Just wanted to try a low fat cake for a long time and this is the perfect recipe. This recipe calls just 2 tblspn of butter for the caramel alone and the cake itself doesn't need any fat. So it is low fat, eggless and delicious.
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About this Recipe
An upside-down cake is a cake that is baked in a single pan upside- down,; with the toppings at the bottom. When the finished upside- down preparation is removed from the oven, it is flipped over and de-panned onto a serving plate, righting it and serving it right-side up.
Before the batter is poured in, chopped or sliced fruits such as apples, cherries, peaches, or pineapples, butter, and sugar are usually placed on the bottom of the pan, forming a baked-on topping after the cake is inverted. You can use a basic cottage pudding cake batter.
Why do they call it upside down cake?
This straightforward cake is made by pouring cake batter over Apple or pineapple, brown sugar, and butter in a skillet. Nuts and maraschino cherries are occasionally added. After baking, it is flipped onto a platter so that the bottom becomes the top. As a result, the term upside down was coined.
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Ingredient for Apple Upside Down Cake
- Apples - 3 medium size
- Sugar - 2 tblspn
- Lemon Juice - ½ tsp
- All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 ½ cup / 180 grams
- Sugar - ½ cup / 100 grams
- Baking Powder - 2 tsp
- Milk - 1 cup / 240 ml
- Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
- Lemon Juice - 2 tsp
Apple Puree - 3 tblspn (Optional)
- Sugar - ½ cup to ¾ cup
- Water - 3 tblspn
- Butter - 2 tblspn
Apple:
Most apples are slightly sweet and slightly tart, but neither flavour dominates. Some of these apples will have a mild flavour, while others will have a strong flavour. That, as is customary, is dependent on the weather and harvest conditions.
Baking Powder
Baking powder is used to increase the volume of baked goods and lighten their texture. It works by releasing carbon dioxide gas into batter or dough via an acid–base reaction, which causes bubbles in the wet mixture to expand and thus leaven the mixture.
In place of apples, you can go with pineapples, pears, plums, peaches, strawberries, mangoes or any fruit you like.
How to Make Apple Upside Down Cake
- Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Grease a 22 cm round baking pan with some oil and set aside.
- Now take your apples, peel them, core them, cut them into wedges.
- Add 2 tbsp sugar and ½ tsp lemon juice over it and toss well. Set aside.
- Take Milk in bowl, add in lemon juice, mix well and set aside.
- Now let's make caramel, take sugar, water in a sauce pan and heat on medium heat, don't stir just keep swirling the pan and let the caramel bubble up and get dark. Now take it off the heat and add in butter and mix well.
- Pour this into the greased pan and arrange apple slices over it. Set aside.
- Now take the milk mix and add in sugar and apple sauce if using, Add in vanilla and mix well. Set this aside.
- Now take flour, baking powder in a bowl and mix well.
- Pour the milk mix into this and fold gently.
- Pour this batter into the pan over the apples and spread it evenly.
- Bake for 30 to 40 mins until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Now remove the cake from oven, let it cool for 3 to 5 mins.
- Invert it carefully into a plate while the cake is still warm.
- Let them cool a little, slice and serve with scoop of ice cream.
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Apple Upside Down Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- Apples - 3 medium size
- Sugar - 2 tblspn
- Lemon Juice - ½ tsp
- For Batter:
- All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 ½ cup / 180 grams
- Sugar - ½ cup / 100 grams
- Baking Powder - 2 tsp
- Milk - 1 cup / 240 ml
- Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
- Lemon Juice - 2 tsp
- Apple Puree - 3 tblspn Optional
- For Caramel:
- Sugar - ½ cup to ¾ cup
- Water - 3 tblspn
- Butter - 2 tblspn
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Grease a 22 cm round baking pan with some oil and set aside.
- Now take your apples, peel them, core them, cut them into wedges.
- Add 2 tbsp sugar and ½ tsp lemon juice over it and toss well. Set aside.
- Take Milk in bowl, add in lemon juice, mix well and set aside.
- Now let's make caramel, take sugar, water in a sauce pan and heat on medium heat, don't stir just keep swirling the pan and let the caramel bubble up and get dark. Now take it off the heat and add in butter and mix well.
- Pour this into the greased pan and arrange apple slices over it. Set aside.
- Now take the milk mix and add in sugar and apple sauce if using, Add in vanilla and mix well. Set this aside.
- Now take flour, baking powder in a bowl and mix well.
- Pour the milk mix into this and fold gently.
- Pour this batter into the pan over the apples and spread it evenly.
- Bake for 30 to 40 mins until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Now remove the cake from oven, let it cool for 3 to 5 mins.
- Invert it carefully into a plate while the cake is still warm.
- Let them cool a little, slice and serve with scoop of ice cream.
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Apple Upside Down Cake Step by Step
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Grease a round tin with oil and set aside.. |
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| Take your apples |
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| peel them |
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| cut them in half |
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| slice them like this |
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| core them |
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| slice each of them thinly |
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| all done |
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| sprinkle over some sugar |
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| and some lemon juice |
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| toss well and set aside |
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| Take milk in a bowl |
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| add lemon juice to it |
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| mix well and set aside |
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| Now lets make the caramel |
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| add water to sugar |
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| heat on medium heat |
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| let the sugar melt down and let it bubble |
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| now it has reached a light golden |
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| now it has turned little darker |
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| add butter |
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| let it bubble |
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| pour this over the pan |
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| now start arranging the apples |
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| like this |
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| now take the milk..see it has turned into buttermilk |
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| add in sugar |
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| i added some pureed apple, this is optional |
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| add in vanilla |
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| mix well |
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| set aside for a min |
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| Take flour in a bowl |
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| add in baking powder |
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| mix well |
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| Pour this into the flour |
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| fold gently |
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| spoon the batter over it |
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| spread it out evenly |
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| bake them..Let them cool just for 5 mins |
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| run a knife around the sides |
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| place a plate over it |
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| invert it |
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| TA DA... |
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| Slice and serve |
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| Enjoy |
Anonymous
Tried ur chocolate fudge cske. It was awesome
sutapa Purkayastha
Looking tempting . Good one.
Anonymous
Aarthi can we use ths caramel for pineapple upside down cake...
Anonymous
Aarthi can we use ths caramel for pineapple upside down cake
Anonymous
Hi aarthi can we make this cake in pressure cooker
Anonymous
Aarthi can we use ths caramel for pineapple upside down cake. ...
Aarthi
@Anonymousyes u can use this for pineapple upside down cake
Aarthi
@Anonymousyes u can make this in pressure cooker
Unknown
Can we use wheat flour instead of maida to make it healthy..
Aarthi
@Unknownwheat flour can be sub, but it will make the cake little denser.
Anonymous
How to bake this in pressure cooker??
Aarthi
@Anonymousfollow my pressure cooker cake recipes
anushree potdar
HI aarti, i have tried a lot of your dishes which have turned out perfect...but this one did not work:(
Aarthi
@anushree potdarwhat problem did you face
Nita
Hi Aarthi, I made this cake today. Followed your recipe perfectly, but the caramel was bitter. I got a beautiful looking cake but bitter tasting. what went wrong?
Pranjali
Tried the caramelized apple upside down cake.it turned out awesome.. thank you