Orange Upside-Down Cake

Name: Orange Upside-Down Cake
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 1 pound small, navel oranges, blood oranges, Cara Cara oranges, or a combination (2 to 3 oranges), divided; 10 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted, divided; 1½ cups (10½ ounces), sugar, divided; 1 teaspoon, cornstarch; ⅛ teaspoon plus ½ teaspoon, table salt, divided; 1 cup (5 ounces), all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon, baking powder; ½ cup, sour cream; 2 , large eggs; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 2 tablespoons, orange marmalade

By Jessica Rudolph

Desserts or Baked Goods

Fruit

Fruit Desserts

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SERVES8

TIME1½ hours, plus 1 hour 20 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We were after a sturdy, buttery cake crowned with jewellike rounds of fresh citrus fruit swathed in a sticky glaze. Peeling the oranges by hand (instead of cutting away the peel and pith with a knife) ensured perfectly round slices. We used...