Apple Upside Down Cake Recipe (2024)

Published: Jun 28, 2022 | Last Updated On: Jun 28, 2022 by Aarthi

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Apple Upside Down Cake Recipe with Step by Step Pictures. Delicious vanilla flavoured cake topped with caramelized apples.

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1.About this Recipe

2.📖 Recipe Card

3.Apple Upside Down Cake Recipe

4.Apple Upside Down Cake Step by Step

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.

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

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

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

Apple Upside Down Cake Recipe with Step by Step Pictures. Delicious vanilla flavoured cake topped with caramelized apples.

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

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Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Grease a 22 cm round baking pan with some oil and set aside.
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Now take your apples, peel them, core them, cut them into wedges.
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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.
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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.
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Let them cool a little, slice and serve with scoop of ice cream.

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Apple Upside Down Cake Step by Step

Take all your ingredients

Grease a round tin with oil and set aside..

Take your apples

peel them

cut them in half

slice them like this

core them

slice each of them thinly

all done

sprinkle over some sugar

and some lemon juice

toss well and set aside

Take milk in a bowl

add lemon juice to it

mix well and set aside

Now lets make the caramel

add water to sugar

heat on medium heat

let the sugar melt down and let it bubble

now it has reached a light golden

now it has turned little darker

add butter

let it bubble

pour this over the pan

now start arranging the apples

like this

now take the milk..see it has turned into buttermilk

add in sugar

i added some pureed apple, this is optional

add in vanilla

mix well

set aside for a min

Take flour in a bowl

add in baking powder

mix well

Pour this into the flour

fold gently

spoon the batter over it

spread it out evenly

bake them..Let them cool just for 5 mins

run a knife around the sides

place a plate over it

invert it

TA DA...

Slice and serve

Enjoy

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Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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Anonymous
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Tried ur chocolate fudge cske. It was awesome
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sutapa Purkayastha
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Looking tempting . Good one.
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Anonymous
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Aarthi can we use ths caramel for pineapple upside down cake...
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Anonymous
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Aarthi can we use ths caramel for pineapple upside down cake
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Anonymous
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Hi aarthi can we make this cake in pressure cooker
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Anonymous
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Aarthi can we use ths caramel for pineapple upside down cake. ...
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Aarthi
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@Anonymousyes u can use this for pineapple upside down cake
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Aarthi
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@Anonymousyes u can make this in pressure cooker
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Unknown
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Can we use wheat flour instead of maida to make it healthy..
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Aarthi
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@Unknownwheat flour can be sub, but it will make the cake little denser.
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Anonymous
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How to bake this in pressure cooker??
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Aarthi
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@Anonymousfollow my pressure cooker cake recipes
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anushree potdar
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HI aarti, i have tried a lot of your dishes which have turned out perfect...but this one did not work:(
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Aarthi
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@anushree potdarwhat problem did you face
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Nita
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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?
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Pranjali
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Tried the caramelized apple upside down cake.it turned out awesome.. thank you
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