This upside down cake can use any fruit you want -- but this one uses the fresh citrus flavors from blood oranges on top of a vanilla cake with a syrupy glaze. It's like pineapple upside down cake, but even better.
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time40 minutesmins
Total Time55 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: blood orange, vanilla cake
Servings: 12people
Ingredients
For the topping:
¼cupunsalted butter, melted
½cuppacked light brown sugar
2blood oranges, sliced thin (about ⅛" thick)
For the cake
1 ⅔cupsall-purpose flour
½teaspoonbaking powder
¼teaspoonbaking soda
½teaspoonsalt
½cupunsalted butter, melted
¾cuplight brown sugar, packed
¼cupgranulated sugar
1large egg
¼cupyogurt or sour cream
½cupmilk (any kind)
2teaspoonspure vanilla extract
¼cupblood orange juice (from one squeezed orange)
For whipped cream
1cupheavy whipping cream
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°F
For the topping: Make ¼ cup of melted butter into a cake pan with at least a 2" tall side. Sprinkle with ½ cup of brown sugar. Start in the middle and place blood orange slices overlapping each other all around the bottom of the pan. Set aside.
For the cake: In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside. In a large microwave-safe bowl, melt butter in the microwave. Whisk in both sugars until all clumps are broken up. Whisk in egg, yogurt, milk, orange juice, and vanilla extract until combined. Slowly add in dry ingredients until no lumps remain.
Gently spoon batter onto blood oranges resting in pan. Bake for at 40-45 minutes. If cake starts to bur halfway through, you can cover the pan with aluminum foil. Allow cake to cool for exactly 10 minutes.
Invert cake quickly on top of a cake stand or flat platter. Slice and serve with fresh whipped cream (to make: beat heavy cream in a stand mixer using whisk attachment until medium peaks form.
Notes
To take cake out of pan: Only wait 10 minutes before turning your cake upside down. Any more time will cause the fruit to stick to the top of your pan and any sooner will not be enough time for the cake to set.Strange instructions: Store wrapped in the refrigerator (once completely cooled) for 3 days.