Upside Down Butterscotch Cake Recipes

ONE-BOWL APPLE-SPICE BUNDT CAKE WITH BUTTERSCOTCH GLAZE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325°F. Generously spray 10- or 12-cup fluted tube cake pan.
• In large bowl, beat all Cake ingredients except apples with electric mixer on low speed 1 minute, scraping bowl constantly. Increase speed to medium; beat 2 minutes. Stir in apples. Pour into pan.
• Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes; turn upside down onto cooling rack or heatproof serving plate, and remove pan. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Place cake on serving plate.
• In medium bowl, beat Butterscotch Glaze ingredients with electric mixer on medium speed about 1 minute or until smooth and well combined. Drizzle on top of cake. Garnish with dried apple slices.

UPSIDE-DOWN BUTTERSCOTCH APPLE SOUR CREAM CAKE

Steps:

• For cake:
• Preheat oven to 375°F. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until smooth. Gradually add sugar and beat until well blended. Add eggs and vanilla; beat until blended. Beat in flour mixture, then sour cream. Stir in chopped apple. Set aside while preparing butterscotch-caramel apples.
• For butterscotch-caramel apples:
• Melt butter in 10-inch-diameter nonstick ovenproof skillet over medium heat. Add brown sugar and butterscotch morsels; stir until melted and smooth and mixture is bubbling, about 2 minutes. Add apple slices to skillet and cook until golden brown, using tongs to turn slices, about 3 minutes per side (there will be a lot of liquid in skillet). Remove skillet from heat and let cool 3 minutes. Using tongs, arrange apple slices in skillet in concentric circles or other pattern.
• Carefully spoon cake batter in small dollops atop apples in skillet. Using offset spatula, gently spread batter evenly to edges of skillet (batter will seem to float on top of apples and pan juices). Bake until cake is golden brown and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Cool in skillet 10 minutes. Run knife around edges of cake to loosen. Place large platter atop skillet. Using oven mitts or pot holders, hold platter and skillet firmly together and invert, allowing cake to settle onto platter. Serve cake warm.

UPSIDE-DOWN APPLE CAKE WITH BUTTERSCOTCH TOPPING

Steps:

• In a small bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in egg. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to the creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, beating well after each addition. Fold in chopped apple; set aside., In a 7-in. cast-iron or other ovenproof skillet, melt butter and chips with brown sugar over medium heat. Stir in sliced apple. Spoon and spread batter over apple mixture. , Bake at 375° until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 20-25 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes before inverting onto a serving plate. Serve warm.

UPSIDE-DOWN BUTTERSCOTCH CAKE

Steps:

• Topping: Combine the melted butter, graham cracker crumbs, butterscotch chips, coconut, and pecans.
• Spread over bottom of a buttered 13x9-inch baking pan.
• Cake: Cream shortening with granulated sugar until light.
• Add vanilla and mix well.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Into another bowl, sift together the flour, salt, and baking powder.
• Add sifted ingredients to the creamed mixture, alternating with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour.
• Beat well after each addition.
• Beat for about 1 minute longer then pour over the topping.
• Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 30 minutes, or until the cake bounces back when touched lightly with finger.
• Cool for 5 minute in the pan; invert carefully onto serving plate, spooning any topping left in the pan over the cake; cut into squares.

PLUM UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE

Steps:

• Place a rack in the middle of the oven and heat oven to 325ºF.
• Add 3 tablespoons of butter to an 8 inch cake pan. While the oven is preheating, place the pan in the oven to melt the butter. Add 1/3 cup brown sugar to the pan and spread it so that it evenly covers the bottom of the pan. Arrange the sliced plums in concentric circles and overlapping the slices slightly. Set the pan aside.
• In a medium bowl, sift the all-purpose flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger and salt. Whisk to combine and set aside.
• In the bowl of your mixer, add the butter and brown sugar and beat on medium-high for 3 minutes or until mixture is fluffy.
• Add the egg and beat until blended.
• Add the sour cream and vanilla extract and beat until smooth.
• Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl before gradually adding the flour mixture on low-speed. Once the flour has been incorporated, increase the speed of the mixer and beat until batter is smooth, don't over-beat the batter.
• Spoon batter into the pan and spread it gently and evenly onto the plums.
• Bake for approximately 35 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.
• Cool cake on wire rack for 10 to 15 minutes before running a knife along the side of the pan. Place a serving plate over the cake pan and invert cake onto the plate.
• Serve the cake warm or at room temperature. Cake can be served plain or with lightly sweetened whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

BUTTERSCOTCH RHUBARB CAKE

Steps:

• Cream sugar and butter. Add eggs, buttermilk, soda, flour and rhubarb, mix as you add each ingredient.
• Pour into a sprayed 9X13 pan.
• Combine all ingredients for topping and sprinkle over cake batter.
• Bake 40-45 minutes at 350 degrees.
• Serve with a dollop of cool whip!

CARAMEL-DATE UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE

Steps:

• For topping:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Place sugar and butter in 9-inch-diameter metal cake pan with 3-inch-high sides. Whisk over medium heat until sugar dissolves, butter melts, and sauce is bubbling thickly, about 3 minutes. Whisk in lemon juice and salt. Remove from heat and cool 5 minutes.
• Arrange date quarters in 3 concentric circles in caramel, rounded side down, covering completely.
• For cake:
• Sift first 4 ingredients into medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat butter and both sugars in large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla, then eggs, 1 at a time. Beat in dry ingredients in 3 additions alternately with buttermilk in 2 additions. Spoon batter over topping in pan.
• Place cake pan on large baking sheet. Bake cake until puffed and golden and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 50 minutes.
• Cool cake in pan on rack 15 minutes. Cut around pan sides and invert warm cake onto platter. Carefully lift off pan. Return any dates that stick to pan to top of cake. Scrape any caramel left in pan over cake.
• Serve cake warm or at room temperature with whipped cream.