Apricot-Pecan Upside-Down Cake
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup (packed) golden brown sugar
- 7 fresh cherries, halved, pitted
- 1/3 cup chopped pecans
- 7 large apricots, halved, pitted
- 1 3/4 cups unbleached all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2/3 cup whole milk, room temperature
- Whipped cream
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Melt butter in heavy small saucepan over medium-low heat.
- Add brown sugar and stir until mixture begins to bubble, about 2 minutes.
- Pour into 9-inch-diameter cake pan with 2-inch-high sides.
- Spread mixture over bottom of pan.
- Sprinkle nuts over.
- Place each cherry half, cut side down, into pitted center of each apricot half.
- Arrange apricot halves, cherry side down, in concentric circles in pan.
- Whisk flour, baking powder, nutmeg and salt in medium bowl to blend.
- Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until light and creamy.
- Gradually beat in sugar.
- Beat in eggs 1 at a time.
- Mix in vanilla.
- Beat in dry ingredients alternately with milk in 3 additions.
- Spoon batter over apricots.
- Bake cake until top is golden and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour 10 minutes.
- Transfer pan to rack.
- Run knife around pan sides.
- Cool cake on rack 10 minutes.
- Place plate over pan; invert cake onto plate.
- Gently lift off pan.
- Set cake pan over low heat and whisk any sugar mixture remaining in pan until syrupy, about 30 seconds.
- Pour syrup over cake.
- Serve warm with whipped cream
unsalted butter, golden brown sugar, fresh cherries, pecans, flour, baking powder, ground nutmeg, salt, unsalted butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, milk, cream
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/apricot-pecan-upside-down-cake-5382 (may not work)