Upside Down Cake

Your favorite fruit quickly becomes your favorite dessert with this irresistible, any fruit upside down cake recipe! So, whatever your favorite fruit is, this is your upside down cake recipe for it! All of the flavors you love combine in this super simple recipe to excite your pallet and warm your soul!

I don’t know about you, but I am always that person that has the best intentions of eating super healthy. So every week so when I go grocery shopping, I buy a ridiculous amount of fruit. And I convince myself that I’m definitely going to eat throughout the week… But, I don’t! I seem to always be throwing away fruit that has gone bad.

NOT ANY MORE!

As a baking enthusiast, I bring baked goods with me everywhere! And because of my constant over abundance of fruit, this is my go-to recipe! It never fails to impress and it is SO easy! You can even use previously frozen fruit! Just thaw it out and you are ready to go! I love this, because I really do buy too much fruit! So before it goes bad, I simply peel, pit, and slice it, place it in a baggie and freeze it for a cake down the road!

So, without further ado, how do you make this any fruit upside down cake?

Equipment Needed:

• 8x8x2″ Baking pan or cast iron skillet
• Stand mixer
• Mixing bowl

Shopping List:

• 1/4 c Margarine to melt in pan
• 1/2 c Light Brown Sugar packed
• 2 c Fruit peeled, pitted and sliced if necessary
• 1.25 c All purpose Flour
• 1.25 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1-1.5 tsp Ground Cinnamon
• 1/4-1/2 tsp Ground Nutmeg
• 1/2 c Margarine softened
• 1 LG Egg
• 1.5 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1/2 c Skim Milk any milk on hand will work

How to Make Any Fruit Upside Down Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. Add 1/4 c margarine to cake pan or cast iron and place on center rack of oven.
3. While melting, prepare fruit by peeling, pitting and slicing if necessary.
4. Once margarine is melted, BUT NOT BROWNED, remove from oven.
5. Add brown sugar to the pan and stir until combined.
6. Even the mixture at the bottom of the pan.
7. Top the mixture in the pan with the prepared fruit.
8. Set aside.
9. In a mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
10. In a stand mixer, mix softened margarine on medium speed for 30 seconds.
11. Beat in sugar until well mixed.
12. Add egg and then vanilla until smooth and combined.
13. Finally, alternate adding the flour mixture and the milk until everything is combined.
14. Spread batter evenly over fruit in pan/skillet.
15. Bake for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
16. Let cool in pan for 15 minutes before turning upside down onto serving platter.
17. Serve warm and/ a la mode!

Suggested Fruits:

• Pineapple
• Peaches
• Nectarines
• Apples (soften over medium heat with 1 tbsp brown sugar, 1/4 tsp cinnamon and 1/4 c water until desired tenderness)
• Blueberries
• Blackberries
• Banana
• Mango
• Strawberry

Substitutions:

Margarine: May use butter in a 1:1 ratio.

All purpose flour:  Easily make this recipe gluten free by substituting King Arthur’s Gluten Free Flour in a 1:1 ratio.

Egg: 1 tbsp of flaxseed with 3 tbsp of water (let sit for 5 minutes) will replace one egg.

Optional:

Cinnamon and nutmeg are suggested at two different measurements.  If the fruit you choose reminds you more of fall and you want more of a fall flavor, choose the heavier measurement.  If not, choose the lighter, or OMIT IF UNDESIRED FLAVOR.

(Any Fruit) Upside Down Cake

Your favorite fruit quickly becomes your favorite dessert with this irresistible, any fruit upside down cake recipe!

5 from 5 votes

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 45 minutes mins

15 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr 15 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 10 slices

Calories 316 kcal

Equipment

• 8x8x2" Baking pan or cast iron skillet
• Stand mixer
• Mixing bowl

Ingredients

  

• 1/4 c Margarine to melt in pan
• 1/2 c Light Brown Sugar packed
• 2 c Fruit peeled, pitted and sliced if necessary
• 1.25 c All purpose Flour
• 1.25 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1-1.5 tsp Ground Cinnamon
• 1/4-1/2 tsp Ground Nutmeg
• 1/2 c Margarine softened
• 1 LG Egg
• 1.5 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1/2 c Skim Milk any milk on hand will work

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350F.
• Add 1/4 c margarine to cake pan or cast iron and place on center rack of oven.
• While melting, prepare fruit by peeling, pitting and slicing if necessary.
• Once margarine is melted, BUT NOT BROWNED, remove from oven.
• Add brown sugar to the pan and stir until combined.
• Even the mixture at the bottom of the pan.
• Top the mixture in the pan with the prepared fruit.
• Set aside.
• In a mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
• In a stand mixer, mix softened margarine on medium speed for 30 seconds.
• Beat in sugar until well mixed.
• Add egg and then vanilla until smooth and combined.
• Finally, alternate adding the flour mixture and the milk until everything is combined.
• Spread batter evenly over fruit in pan/skillet.
• Bake for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
• Let cool in pan for 15 minutes before turning upside down onto serving platter.
• Serve warm and/ a la mode!

Notes

Suggested Fruits:

• Pineapple
• Peaches
• Nectarines
• Apples (soften over medium heat with 1 tbsp brown sugar, 1/4 tsp cinnamon and 1/4 c water until desired tenderness)
• Blueberries
• Blackberries
• Banana
• Mango
• Strawberry

Substitutions: 

Margarine: May use butter in a 1:1 ratio.

All purpose flour:  Easily make this recipe gluten free by substituting King Arthur’s Gluten Free Flour in a 1:1 ratio.

Egg: 1 tbsp of flaxseed with 3 tbsp of water (let sit for 5 minutes) will replace one egg.

Optional:

Cinnamon and nutmeg are suggested at two different measurements.  If the fruit you choose reminds you more of fall and you want more of a fall flavor, choose the heavier measurement.  If not, choose the lighter, or OMIT IF UNDESIRED FLAVOR.

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