Gooey caramel apple upside down cake
Upside down cakes are just so much fun! And kids get so excited at this one-time opportunity to turn our careful baking on its head without a care in the world. This recipe for gooey caramel apple upside down cake is moist, delicious and packed with flavour. A great sticky sweet for tea time treats.
Servings 1 cake
Ingredients
Apple caramel topping
- 60 grams unsalted butter ¼ cup
- 100 grams light brown sugar ½ cup
- 50 mls whole milk
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 large pink lady apples (or 3 small) peeled and sliced
Cake
- 210 grams plain flour 1½ cups
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 150 grams light brown sugar ¾ cup
- pinch salt
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup Greek yogurt 120 grams
- 100 mls vegetable oil
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180°C (350°F) fan setting.
- Grease a round cake tin well using butter or oil spray. We used a medium sized tin that was 20 cm (8 inch) diameter.
- Peel and thinly slice the apples.
Caramel apple topping
- In a medium sized saucepan, stir together the butter, brown sugar, milk and cinnamon over low heat.
- When everything has combined, remove from the heat and pour into the greased cake tin. It should be spread evenly across the bottom of the cake tin.
- Arrange the apple slices over the caramel base in a fan shape. You can overlap the apple slices to ensure that they cover the base of the cake tin.
Cake
- In a large mixing bowl combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, ground cinnamon, brown sugar and salt. Mix together.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs and yogurt until smooth.
- Add in the vegetable oil and vanilla essence and whisk again.
- Pour these into the bowl of dry ingredients and mix it all together until well combined to finish the cake mixture.
- Pour the cake batter into the tin, on top of the caramel and apple layers.
- Bake in centre of the oven for 45 minutes, or until a knife comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and allow it to cool for 10 minutes.
- Then the fun part! Place a large plate over the cake tin and flip the cake over in one swift motion onto the serving plate. If you need to, tap or shake it a little to make sure the cake comes off in one motion.
- Serve your gooey caramel apple upside down cake while warm with some vanilla ice cream.