Caramelized Apple Upside Down Cake. In a small saucepan over medium heat, melt brown sugar, butter, vanilla, cinnamon, and salt. The best part about the classic pineapple upside-down cake is its gooey fruit topping, and this fresh take on the beloved dessert is no exception. We replaced canned pineapple with fresh apple slices whose tart flavor is the perfect balance to a sticky-sweet caramel sauce.

Our apple upside-down cake is the ideal fall dessert. A classic upside-down cake recipe, it combines the best of fall flavor—from the actual spice cake batter, made with warm spices like cinnamon and nutmeg, to the brown sugar, apple, and pecan topping. The brown sugar, apple, and pecan mixture that's cooked in the skillet becomes a gooey, rich topping for the cake when it's inverted. You can cook Caramelized Apple Upside Down Cake using 13 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Caramelized Apple Upside Down Cake

Prepare of (Caramelized Apples).
It's 2 of Apples.
It's 1 tbsp of Lemon juice (omit if you are using Jonathan or Kogyoku apples).
Prepare 100 grams of Granulated sugar.
It's 2 tbsp of Water.
It's 1 tbsp of Rum.
You need of (Batter).
Prepare 100 grams of Butter.
You need 80 grams of Soft light brown sugar.
It's 2 of Eggs.
You need 2 tbsp of Milk.
Prepare 100 grams of Cake flour.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of Baking powder.

Caramel Apple Upside-Down Cake This old-fashioned dessert is a classic for a reason. Brown sugar and butter melt and bake into a sweet caramel sauce that tops the cake when flipped after baking. A delicious apple upside down cake that is perfectly moist and has a caramel glaze on top! My baby is growing too fast for my liking.

Caramelized Apple Upside Down Cake step by step

Bring the butter and eggs for the batter to room temperature..
Make the caramelized apples: Peel and core the apples and cut into 16 wedges..
Put the apple slices in a heatproof container, sprinkle with lemon juice, and cover with plastic wrap. Microwave for 6 minutes at 500W, stirring the apples every 2 minutes..
Mix the granulated sugar and water together in a frying pan and heat on medium..
Cook while stirring occasionally with a wooden spatula until the sugar becomes caramale colored. Once it starts to color, it changes very quickly so be careful..
Add the apple slices with the juices (the caramel will splatter, so be careful). Add the rum also. Simmer over medium heat while making sure the caramel coats the apple slices evenly..
Mix occasionally so that the liquid coats the apples, until it's reduced to about 1 to 2 tablespoons or so..
Butter the cake pan, pour the liquid in first, then line the bottom with the apple slices. See steps 9 and 10 for how to layer the apple slices..
Combine 3 slices of apple and put in the middle. Place 6 slices around that, layering them on each other..
Keep layering the apple slices, overlapping them slightly. See the "how to layer the apple slices" instructions below..
Make the batter. Add the soft brown sugar to the softened butter, and cream together well..
Add the beaten eggs in 3 batches, mixing well each time so that the batter doesn't split between additions. Add the milk and mix well so that the batter doesn't split..
Sift the cake flour and baking powder together as you add them to the batter, and mix in completely..
Pour the batter into the cake pan over the apples, and level it out with a spatula. If you tap the pan (the usual method for leveling out cake batter) the layered apple slices will shift around..
Bake in a preheated 170°C oven for 35 to 40 minutes. If a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean, it's done..
Leave to cool in the cake tin. When it has cooled down a bit, place a board on top and flip it over to remove from the tin. Leave as is until the caramel has solidified..
Layer the apple slices, like this so that the top part of each slice will be on the surface when you turn the cake upside down..
This way of layering them is easier, but it doesn't look as nice since the core part of the top half of each slice will be hidden..

This Salted Caramel Apple Upside Down Cake is covered with a top layer of homemade salted caramel and loaded with thinly slices apples. Arrange apples in a single layer over brown sugar; layer with walnuts and remaining brown sugar. Spoon batter over the top, then spread gently so batter is evenly distributed. Allow cake to sit in skillet for five minutes, then invert onto a serving plate. this was a really good concept unfortunately i had a couple of issues all of my caramel cooked up and out of the cake pan (be sure to put another pan under the cake pan or you will have a mess) and the cake batter seemed more like dough than batter. very good though as far as taste goes. i put diced apples and walnuts in the cake as well and cooked the caramel on the stove. i'll do more. Pour the cake batter on top of the apples and spread the batter evenly on top.