Apple Upside-Down Cake

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 2009, America's Test Kitchen TV

Ever since pineapple came to town, apple upside-down cake has been a bit player. A successful comeback would require a flavorful topping and just the right kind of cake.

SERVES 8

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 40 minutes cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Precooking some of the apples before placing them in the bottom of the cake pan gave us plentiful fruit infused with caramel flavor for our best apple upside-down cake recipe. For a coarse-crumbed cake that wouldn’t buckle under the weight ...

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