Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, upside down date cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Upside Down Date Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Upside Down Date Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have upside down date cake using 15 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Upside Down Date Cake:
- Get Syrup
- Prepare 20-25 dates
- Get 4.5 tbsp Unsalted butter (room temperature)
- Prepare 120 g light brown sugar
- Make ready 1 tbsp Honey
- Prepare Juice of half a lemon
- Prepare Cake base
- Take 215 g Self raising flour
- Get 3 Eggs
- Prepare 2.5 tsp Baking powder
- Make ready 2 tsp Cinnamon
- Make ready Pinch salt
- Make ready 325 g Caster sugar
- Get 2/3 tsp Vanilla extract
- Take 160 ml Whole milk
Steps to make Upside Down Date Cake:
- Preheat oven to 175 degrees
- Make the syrup by bringing together butter, light brown sugar, honey and lemon juice to a simmer on the hob. Once simmering, reduce the heat and leave for a minute.
- Add the syrup to the cake tin. Aim to use a tin with an attached base.
- Cut the dates in half lengthways and remove the stone.
- Place the dates skin side touching the syrup in concentric circles. Keep them tightly packed side by side.
- Start making the cake mixture by adding together all the dry ingredients apart from the caster sugar in a mixing bowl.
- In a separate mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar until light and creamy. Add the vanilla extract.
- Add three quarters of the milk to the eggs and sugar mixture. Mix well.
- Add the dry ingredients mixture in three batches to the eggs and sugar mixture. Mix well after each addition. Aim for a mixture which slowly falls off the spoon. If the mixture is too thick, add the remaining milk.
- Add cake mixture on top of the dates and syrup.
- Bake for 60 - 70 mins in the preheated oven (175 degrees Celsius). A skewer inserted into the middle should come out clean.
- Leave to cool for 2 - 3 mins then turn upside down on a wire rack then serve on a plate.
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