Upside-Down Apple Cake with Whiskey-Soaked Fruit

Name: Upside-Down Apple Cake with Whiskey-Soaked Fruit
Prep time: 4 h
Cook time: 4 h
Total time: 4 h
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters apple jelly; 3 Tbsps chopped crystallized ginger; 118 milliliters chopped dried apricots; 4 eggs; 57 grams (from 8-oz container) mascarpone cheese, softened; 1 slice Fresh cranberries and orange if desired; 2 teaspoons grated orange peel; 3 red apples, unpeeled, quartered, cored, very thinly (1/4 inch) sliced; 177 milliliters slivered almonds, finely ground; 1 Tbsp sugar; 118 milliliters sweetened dried cranberries; 79 milliliters vegetable oil; 237 milliliters water; 118 milliliters whipping cream; 3 Tbsps whiskey or bourbon; 1 box Betty yellow cake mix

Upside-Down Apple Cake with Whiskey-Soaked Fruit requires roughly 4 hours from start to finish. One portion of this dish contains about 4g of protein, 14g of fat, and a total of 316 calories. This recipe serves 16. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have mascarpone cheese, apples, cranberries and orange, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

In medium bowl, mix dried cranberries, apricots, orange peel and bourbon.

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Dried Cranberries

Orange Zest

Apricot

Bourbon

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Bowl

Let stand at room temperature 1 hour or overnight.

Heat oven to 350F (325F for dark or nonstick pan). Generously grease bottom and sides of two 8-inch round cake pans with shortening. Line bottom of each pan with cooking parchment paper. Grease parchment paper with shortening.

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Shortening

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Baking Paper

Oven

Frying Pan

Line bottom and side of each pan with overlapping apple slices, cutting slices as necessary to line side of each pan.

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Apple

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Frying Pan

In large bowl, beat cake mix, water, ground almonds, oil and eggs with electric mixer on low speed until moistened, then on medium speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Stir in soaked dried fruit and ginger. Gently pour into pans over apple slices.

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Almond Meal

Dried Fruit

Cake Mix

Ginger

Apple

Water

Egg

Cooking Oil

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Immediately turn pans upside down to release cakes onto cooling racks.

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Toothpicks

Oven

In small microwavable bowl, microwave apple jelly uncovered on High 15 to 30 seconds, stirring every 15 seconds, until hot.

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Apple Jelly

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Microwave

Bowl

Brush over apples on top and side of each cake to make shiny. Cool completely, about 1 hour.

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Apple

Meanwhile, in medium bowl, beat mascarpone cheese, whipping cream and sugar with electric mixer on high speed until stiff peaks form. On serving plate, place one cake, apple side up. Top with whipped cream mixture. Gently place remaining cake layer on top of cream, apple side up.

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Mascarpone