Apple upside down cake
1 cake
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2¼ | cup | Flour |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 1¼ | teaspoon | Ground Ginger |
| ½ | teaspoon | Cinnamon |
| ½ | teaspoon | Nutmeg |
| 1 | teaspoon | Baking Soda |
| ¼ | cup | Butter |
| ½ | cup | Brown Sugar |
| 2 | Large Apples | |
| ½ | cup | Shortening |
| 3 | tablespoons | Sugar |
| 1 | Egg | |
| 1 | cup | Molasses |
| 1 | cup | Boiling Water |
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 375 F. 2. Sift together flour, spices and baking soda. 3. In a 10" cast iron skillet, melt the butter. 4. Sprinkle the sugar evenly over it. 5. Peel and core apples, slice them. 6.
Arrange apples, overlapping on top of sugar. 7. With electric mixer at medium speed, beat together the shortening, sugar and the egg until very creamy. 8. Combine the molasses and the water 9. At low speed add the flour and molasses mix alternating to
the to eggmix. Beat well after each addition. 10.Spoon batter over apples and bake 45 minutes or until done. 11.Loosen around the edges with spatula; invert onto plate; let stand 3-4 minutes, then remove from skillet. 12.Serve warm with soft ginger icecream.
Out of "Who's Who Cooks"
Typed by Brigitte Sealing
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