Blackberry-apple Upside-down Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 3/4 cup butter
• 1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
• 1/4 cup honey
• 2 large gala apples, peeled and cut into 1/4-inch thick slices
• 1 cup fresh blackberries or 1 cup frozen blackberrie
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°.
• 2 melt 1/4 cup butter in a lightly greased 9-inch round cake pan (with sides that are at least 2 inches high) over low heat.
• 3 remove from heat.
• 4 sprinkle with brown sugar; drizzle honey over brown sugar.
• 5 arrange apple slices in concentric circles over brown sugar mixture, overlapping as needed; sprinkle with blackberries.
• 6 beat sugar and remaining 1/2 cup butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until blended.
• 7 add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition.
• 8 stir together flour and baking powder.
• 9 add flour mixture to sugar mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• 10 beat at low speed just until blended after each addition.
• 11 stir in vanilla.
• 12 spoon batter over blackberries in pan.
• 13 bake at 350° for 45-50 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• 14 cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes.
• 15 carefully run a knife around edge of cake to loosen.
• 16 invert cake onto serving plate, spooning any topping in pan over cake.