Description
A nine-inch brown-sugar apple-topped butter cake cut into eight slices.
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 tablespoons Unsalted butter, melted, for topping
- 1/2 cup Packed light brown sugar, for topping
- 2 medium Firm apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced
- 1/2 teaspoon Ground cinnamon
- 1 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon Fine salt
- 1/2 cup Unsalted butter, softened, for cake
- 3/4 cup Granulated sugar
- 2 eggs Large eggs
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup Whole milk
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350°F. Pour 4 tbsp melted butter into a solid-bottom 9-inch cake pan and spread 1/2 cup packed brown sugar evenly over it. Arrange two peeled, thinly sliced apples in overlapping rings; dust with 1/2 tsp cinnamon.
- Whisk 1 1/2 cups flour, 1 1/2 tsp baking powder and 1/2 tsp salt. Cream 1/2 cup softened butter with 3/4 cup granulated sugar, then beat in two eggs one at a time and 1 tsp vanilla. Add dry mix in alternating additions with 1/2 cup milk, mixing only until smooth.
- Gently spread batter over the apples without shifting their pattern. Bake approximately 45–50 minutes until a skewer inserted into the cake portion comes out without wet batter. Do not probe through the caramel layer as if it were raw cake.
- Rest in the pan about fifteen minutes. Loosen the cake's edge, place a serving plate over the pan and invert carefully while warm. Lift pan and let the cake cool another forty-five minutes before cutting eight provisional slices; check pan release, apple moisture and cake set in a trial.
Notes
Recipe-development draft; not kitchen-tested. Timing and yield are estimates. Nutrition has not been calculated.
Additional chilling, resting or cooling time: 60 minutes, included in the total.
Untested estimate: about 45–50 minutes baking, 15 minutes pan rest and 45 minutes cooling after inversion; preheat excluded.
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Chilling, resting or cooling: 60 minutes
- Cook Time: 50 minutes
- Category: Cakes
Nutrition
- Serving Size: One eighth of a 9-inch cake