Apple-cinnamon Upside-down Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 55 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 10 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1/2 cup packed light-brown sugar
• 3 gala apples, peeled, cored, and sliced into 8 wedges (about 1 1/2 pounds)
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup whole milk

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees. coat bottom and side of a 9-inch round cake pan with 2 tablespoons butter; sprinkle bottom with brown sugar. in a medium bowl, toss apples with lemon juice; arrange in prepared pan in two concentric circles (you might not use all of them).
• 2 in a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon; set aside.
• 3 with an electric mixer, beat remaining 8 tablespoons butter with granulated sugar until light and fluffy. add eggs and vanilla; beat until incorporated. with mixer on low speed, alternately add the flour mixture in three parts and the milk in two, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• 4 spoon batter over apples in pan; smooth top. bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 45 to 55 minutes. cool cake in pan on a wire rack, at least 30 minutes and up to 6 hours (if cake has risen above rim of pan, simply push back inside rim).
• 5 to serve, run a knife around edge of pan, and invert cake onto a rimmed platter.