This recipe was very popular at our family’s holidays dinner. I adapted a recipe from Jake Cohen’s cookbook, Jew-ish. I removed the caramel and simply did honey. I also changed how I sliced the apples, using a mandolin, and made a marscapone with honey topping. I hope you enjoy my changes. If you want to see the cake being made, head over to my instagram @whiskinthesouthern.

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Apple Upside Down Cake

I adapted this recipe from Jake Cohen's Book Jew-ish

Course: Endings

Cuisine: American, Jewish

Keyword: Apple, brown sugar, bundt, chocolate, cake, honey

Ingredients

• 3 Honeycrisp Apple, cored and sliced into thin circles I used a mandolin
• 2 Sticks Unsalted Butter
• 1-3/4 Cups Honey, divided
• 3/4 Cup Buttermilk
• 2 Lg. Eggs
• 1/2 Cup Dark Brown Sugar, packed
• 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
• 2 Cups All-purpose Flour
• 2 tsps. Kosher Salt
• 1 tsp. Ground Cinnamon
• 1 tsp. Freshly grated Nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp. Baking Powder
• 1/2 tsp. Baking Soda
• 1 container Marscapone Cheese, at room temperature

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350°.

  Line bottom of a 9" Springform pan with parchment paper and then grease.
• Arrange half the apple circles on bottom of pan.

  Pour half a cup of honey over the apples.
• In a small saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Stir constantly until butter is browned and smells nutty. Do not let it burn.

  Pour into a heat proof mixing bowl and cool slightly.

  Whisk in 1 cup honey, buttermilk, eggs, brown sugar and vanilla.
• In another bowl, whisk together flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder and baking soda.

  Gradually whisk dry ingredients into batter, until just incorporated.
• Pour half the batter over th apples in pan.

  Then arrange second half of sliced apples over batter.

  Then pour the second half of batter into pan.
• Bake for about 1 hour. You wan your cake tester to come out with just a few moist crumbs.

  Let cake cool in pan for 15 minutes.

  Release springform pan and turn cake out onto plate, inverted.
• Use an electric mixer to beat marscapone. add honey and beat until light and fluffy.

  Serve cake with a good dollop of marscapone.