Upside Down Date Cake
Upside Down Date Cake

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, upside down date cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Upside Down Date Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Upside Down Date Cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

Upside Down Date Cake A Middle Eastern classic cake, tweaked to perfection! Soft and moist vanilla cake topped with lightly candied black dates. Serve warm for the ultimate comfort! Caramel-Date Upside-Down Cake Buttermilk and cake flour are the secrets to the incredibly light texture of this sophisticated cake with its gooey caramel topping.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook upside down date cake using 15 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Upside Down Date Cake:
  1. Get Syrup
  2. Take 20-25 dates
  3. Make ready 4.5 tbsp Unsalted butter (room temperature)
  4. Prepare 120 g light brown sugar
  5. Prepare 1 tbsp Honey
  6. Prepare Juice of half a lemon
  7. Get Cake base
  8. Take 215 g Self raising flour
  9. Get 3 Eggs
  10. Get 2.5 tsp Baking powder
  11. Prepare 2 tsp Cinnamon
  12. Make ready Pinch salt
  13. Prepare 325 g Caster sugar
  14. Take 2/3 tsp Vanilla extract
  15. Take 160 ml Whole milk

Carefully lift up the pan, holding the plate firmly in place, and invert the pan. Let it stand for a few minutes before lifting the pan off. Immediately run knife around side of pan to loosen cake. Place heatproof serving plate upside down onto pan; turn plate and pan over.

Instructions to make Upside Down Date Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 175 degrees
  2. Make the syrup by bringing together butter, light brown sugar, honey and lemon juice to a simmer on the hob. Once simmering, reduce the heat and leave for a minute.
  3. Add the syrup to the cake tin. Aim to use a tin with an attached base.
  4. Cut the dates in half lengthways and remove the stone.
  5. Place the dates skin side touching the syrup in concentric circles. Keep them tightly packed side by side.
  6. Start making the cake mixture by adding together all the dry ingredients apart from the caster sugar in a mixing bowl.
  7. In a separate mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar until light and creamy. Add the vanilla extract.
  8. Add three quarters of the milk to the eggs and sugar mixture. Mix well.
  9. Add the dry ingredients mixture in three batches to the eggs and sugar mixture. Mix well after each addition. Aim for a mixture which slowly falls off the spoon. If the mixture is too thick, add the remaining milk.
  10. Add cake mixture on top of the dates and syrup.
  11. Bake for 60 - 70 mins in the preheated oven (175 degrees Celsius). A skewer inserted into the middle should come out clean.
  12. Leave to cool for 2 - 3 mins then turn upside down on a wire rack then serve on a plate.

Immediately run knife around side of pan to loosen cake. Place heatproof serving plate upside down onto pan; turn plate and pan over. The upside-down cake never goes out of style ā€” and it can be revived again and again by exploring different flavor combinations. This one tops a medjool-date studded cake with a vibrant kumquat. An upside-down cake is a cake that is baked in a single pan with its toppings at the bottom of the pan, hence "upside-down".

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