Apple Upside-Down Gingerbread: Ingredients : APPLE TOPPING 4 tbl Unsalted butter, melted 3/4 cup Light brown sugar 3 x Granny Smith apples, or other tart apples, peeled, halved, cored, and sliced thin GINGER BREAD 2 1/4 cup Sifted unbleached all-purpose flour 1/2 tsp Baking soda 1/2 tsp Salt 2 tsp Powdered ginger 1 tsp Ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp Ground cloves 1/2 tsp Ground nutmeg 1/2 tsp Ground allspice 1 tsp Dutch process cocoa 8 tbl Unsalted butter, melted then cooled to room temperature 3/4 cup Light unsulphured molasses 3/4 cup Granulated white sugar 1/2 cup Buttermilk 1/2 cup Milk 1 lrg Egg
Method : 1. For the apple topping: Grease sides of 11 -by-7-by-1 1/2-inch metal pan. Pour melted unsalted butter into pan-, spread brown sugar evenly over pan bottom. Arrange apple slices, overlapping slightly, on brown sugar mixture. 2. Adjust oven rack to center position and heat oven to 350 degrees. 3. For the gingerbread: whisk together flour, baking soda, salt,ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, allspice, and cocoa in medium bowl. 4. Beat butter, molasses, sugar, buttermilk, milk, and egg in large bowl of an electric mixer on low speed. 5. Add dry ingredients to liquid" beat on medium speed until batter is smooth and thick, about 1 minute, scraping down sides of bowl with rubber spatula as needed. Do not overmix. (If using fresh ginger, batter will be lumpy.) 6. Working quickly, pour batter over apple slices. 7. Bake until top springs back when lightly touched, and edges have pulled away from the pan sides, about 50 to 60 minutes. 8. Set pan on wire cake rack and let cool 5 minutes. Invert onto serving plate, cut into squares, and serve. Serves 8. Nationality: USA Course: dessert Season:any Method: baked Start to Finish 2 hours Preparation 15 minutes Attention 1 1/2 hours Finishing 5 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- from: http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=7798 _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
