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brrrr...it was cold when i went to bed last night. it was cold all day today and colder now this evening. the kind of cold, that when you go outside your lips can freeze to each other... and your eyeballs sting. so us girls didn't go out there. mike did though...he had to go find our driveway under the week's worth of snow. |
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today i left my comfort zone... elsie wanted a pineapple upside down cake. we had to make it from scratch. i have NEVER ever done that before. i do not bake. i don't own a mixer... we just went ahead and did it anyway. |
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we got to it... did our best. i helped her and she helped me. i gave up control. |
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i focused on our time together. didn't worry about it being imperfect. chose to make a mess... |
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it looks good to me. if i'm going to have sugar, it has to be this yummy. (recipe is in the comments) xox i also needed to document another important first. mike and elsie are watching FOOTBALL together. they are cheering and laughing and everything! completely elsie's idea... :) |
10 comments:
It looks yummy!
OOOh....that looks good :)
oh yum! I haven't had one of these in a really long time! I remember as a kid, someone had always made one of these for the church luncheon :)
that looks delicious - something wonderful to make on this really cold day here in SW Ontario (woke up to -18)
I would love the recipe i am also making the squash mac and cheese what great comfort food!
UPSIDE DOWN CAKE
3 tbsp. butter
1/2 cup lightly packed brown sugar
3 apples, cored, peeled and sliced
Cake:
1/3 cup butter or vegetable shortening
3/4 cup granulated white sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 3/4 cups flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
3/4 cup milk
In an 8-inch square baking pan, melt 3 tablespoons of butter. Sprinkle the melted butter with brown sugar.
Top the brown sugar with apples (or other fruit, see below).
Prepare cake:
Beat 1/3 cup room temperature butter or vegetable shortening with 3/4 cup sugar. Add egg, beat until light.
Stir together flour, baking powder and salt. Stir 1/3 flour mixture into egg mixture and beat for 10 seconds. Add vanilla to milk and stir half of the milk mixture into the flour/egg mixture, continue adding flour, then milk alternately until all ingredients for cake batter are mixed. Pour batter over the sugar and fruit in the pan.
Bake in a preheated 350°F oven for 35-45 minutes.
Invert cake at once onto a serving dish. Serve warm with fruit sauce, vanilla ice cream or whipped cream, if desired.
Variations:
The following substitutions may be made for the apples:
Peach: Arrange 1 (20 oz.) can drained peach sliced over the sugar mixture.
Pineapple: Arrange rings over the sugar mixture. Fill centers with cherries or nuts, if desired.
Rhubarb: Increase sugar to 3/4 cup. Cover sugar mixture with 2 cups diced rhubarb.
Yummy thanks
I think your cake is amazing...looks very good to me. It is very snowy here too. xoxo Hugs.
all the food on your blog looks so plain lovely. and delish.
xoxo
Oh my goodness! That's all I can say.
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