Apple Upside-Down Cake

Name: Apple Upside-Down Cake
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick), unsalted butter, cut into 4 pieces, plus extra for pan; 4 , Granny Smith apples or Golden Delicious (about 2 pounds), peeled and cored; 2/3 cup, packed light brown sugar (4 2/3 ounces); 2 teaspoons, juice from 1 lemon; 1 cup, unbleached all-purpose flour (5 ounces); 1 tablespoon, cornmeal (optional); 1 teaspoon, baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 3/4 cup, granulated sugar (5 1/4 ounces); 1/4 cup, packed light brown sugar (1 3/4 ounces); 2 , large eggs; 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick), unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly; 1/2 cup, sour cream; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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

Desserts or Baked Goods

SERVES8

TIME1¼ 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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