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(Any Fruit) Upside Down Cake

Your favorite fruit quickly becomes your favorite dessert with this irresistible, any fruit upside down cake recipe!
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
15 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 10 slices
Calories 316 kcal

Equipment

  • 8x8x2" Baking pan or cast iron skillet
  • Stand mixer
  • Mixing bowl

Ingredients
  

  • 1/4 c Margarine to melt in pan
  • 1/2 c Light Brown Sugar packed
  • 2 c Fruit peeled, pitted and sliced if necessary
  • 1.25 c All purpose Flour
  • 1.25 tsp Baking Powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1-1.5 tsp Ground Cinnamon
  • 1/4-1/2 tsp Ground Nutmeg
  • 1/2 c Margarine softened
  • 1 LG Egg
  • 1.5 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 1/2 c Skim Milk any milk on hand will work

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350F.
  • Add 1/4 c margarine to cake pan or cast iron and place on center rack of oven.
  • While melting, prepare fruit by peeling, pitting and slicing if necessary.
  • Once margarine is melted, BUT NOT BROWNED, remove from oven.
  • Add brown sugar to the pan and stir until combined.
  • Even the mixture at the bottom of the pan.
  • Top the mixture in the pan with the prepared fruit.
  • Set aside.
  • In a mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
  • In a stand mixer, mix softened margarine on medium speed for 30 seconds.
  • Beat in sugar until well mixed.
  • Add egg and then vanilla until smooth and combined.
  • Finally, alternate adding the flour mixture and the milk until everything is combined.
  • Spread batter evenly over fruit in pan/skillet.
  • Bake for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
  • Let cool in pan for 15 minutes before turning upside down onto serving platter.
  • Serve warm and/ a la mode!

Notes

Suggested Fruits:
  • Pineapple
  • Peaches
  • Nectarines
  • Apples (soften over medium heat with 1 tbsp brown sugar, 1/4 tsp cinnamon and 1/4 c water until desired tenderness)
  • Blueberries
  • Blackberries
  • Banana
  • Mango
  • Strawberry
Substitutions: 
Margarine: May use butter in a 1:1 ratio.
All purpose flour:  Easily make this recipe gluten free by substituting King Arthur's Gluten Free Flour in a 1:1 ratio.
Egg: 1 tbsp of flaxseed with 3 tbsp of water (let sit for 5 minutes) will replace one egg.
Optional:
Cinnamon and nutmeg are suggested at two different measurements.  If the fruit you choose reminds you more of fall and you want more of a fall flavor, choose the heavier measurement.  If not, choose the lighter, or OMIT IF UNDESIRED FLAVOR.
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