Upside-Down Gingerbread Recipe
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Upside-Down Gingerbread
The Bottom, (which starts out on top)
6 tbsp butter
2/3 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1/3 cup molasses
1/2 cup King Arthur 100% White Whole Wheat
1 cup King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup buttermilk
The Top, (which starts out on the
2 large , firm cooking apples, as G
Smith or Cortland
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ginger
Preheat your oven to 350F.
The Bottom: Cream the butter and sugar together until light. Add the eggs
one at a time and beat until light. Beat in the molasses. In a separate
bowl
mix together the dry ingredients.
The Top: Mix together the 1/3 cup sugar, cinnamon and ginger. Peel the
apples, slice them, dredge them in the sugar/spice mixture, and place them
artfully in a 9-inch greased* cake pan. Sprinkle on any leftover
sugar/spice
mixture.
*Don't grease the pan with butter. There are enough nonfat milk solids in
butter to create a sticking problem. Use either shortening or a pan spray.
Assembly: Add the dry ingredients to the butter/sugar mixture alternately
with the buttermilk. Pour this mixture over the apples and bake for 35 to
40
minutes.
When the cake is done (the surface should bounce back at you when gently
pressed), remove it from the oven, invert a serving plate over the cake
pan
and, gripping the two securely, flip them over so the cake drops out onto
the serving plate. If, as happened in my version, some of the apples stuck
(I didn't follow my own advice and used butter to grease the pan), gently
pry them from the pan and place them in their appropriate places on the
cake. Unlike pineapple, apples tend to shrink in cooking, so this
cake-turned-upside-down will be visually enhanced if you garnish it with
whipped cream. Otherwise, it's great as is. Yield: 16 servings
Nutrition information per serving (1/16 cake, 62g): 156 cal, 4.5g fat, 2g
protein, 10g complex carbohydrates, 17g sugar, 1g dietary fiber, 13mg
cholesterol, 148mg sodium, 208mg potassium, 44RE vitamin A, 1mg vitamin C,
1mg iron, 48mg calcium, 37mg phosphorus.
I decided, having found a number of references to gingerbread-upside-down
cake, that I'd try making one with cranberries on the bottom, topped with
fresh strawberries and whipped cream. That seemed like a good flavor
combination. (I cooked the cranberries with a goodly amount of brown sugar
so they'd not be overwhelmingly tart.)
The following recipe is a variation of that first experimental
combination.
(The cranberries really were a bit tart; the strawberries and whipped
cream
were what really made that version a success.) But this one can stand on
its
own. Gingerbread and apples were made for each other.
Per serving: 1721 Calories (kcal); 79g Total Fat; (40% calories from fat);
16g Protein; 247g Carbohydrate; 565mg Cholesterol; 3347mg Sodium
Food Exchanges: 1/2 Grain(Starch); 1 1/2 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 0 Fruit;
15 Fat; 15 1/2 Other Carbohydrates
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 6014 Calories; 562g Fat (82.1%
calories from fat); 22g Protein; 254g Carbohydrate; 5g Dietary Fiber;
1868mg Cholesterol; 8267mg Sodium. Exchanges: 1/2 Grain(Starch); 1 1/2
Lean Meat; 1/2 Non-Fat Milk; 111 1/2 Fat; 15 1/2 Other Carbohydrates.
Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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