Caramelized Apple Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup apple cider or 1/4 cup apple juice
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon light butter (stick)
• 4 medium cortland apples (1.5 lb.) or 4 medium fuji apples, peeled, cored, and each cut into 8 wedges (1.5 lb.)
• 1/4 cup light butter, softened
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• baking soda
• apple pie spice
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2/3 cup fat-free buttermilk

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350 degrees f. you'll need a 9 x 2 in pan coated with non stick spray.
• 2 topping: mix sugar and apple cider in a large nonstick skillet, bring to a boil over medium-high heat. boil mixture 4 minutes or until light honey colour. add lemon juice and butter; reduce heat to medium. when butter is melted, boil mixture 1 minute, until light golden. add apples, flat sides down; cook 8 minutes, turning apples with a fork after 4 minutes, until lightly caramelized and crisp tender when pierced with a skewer. remove from heat; cool in skillet 5 minutes.
• 3 cake: pour the apple mixture from skillet into prepared cake pan; use a fork to arrange in concentric circles. beat butter, sugar, baking powder, vanilla, baking soda, apple pie spice and salt with a mixer in a medium bowl 2 minute beat in eggs, 1 at a time, until blended. beat in flour and buttermilk alternately, in three additions, until batter is smooth. pour batter over apples; spread to edge of pan. bake 40-45 minutes, until a pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• 4 cool in pan on wire rack 10 minute invert onto a serving plate. cool until cake is just warm, then serve.