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Up-Side Down Fig Cake
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Recipe By: Alice Morrow
Up-Side Down Fig Cake
Ingredients
- 1 ½ c. plus 1 ½ t. butter, softened and divided
- ½ c. firmly packed light brown sugar
- 2 T. honey
- 12 fresh figs, stems removed and halved
- ¾ c. sugar
- ½ t. vanilla
- 2 large eggs
- 1 ½ c. flour
- 1 ½ t. baking powder
- ¼ t. salt
- ¼ t. ground cinnamon
- ½ c. whole milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven 350. Grease bottom and sides of 9” cake pan with at least 2-3” sides with 1 t. butter.
- Line bottom of pan with parchment paper and grease top with ½ t. butter.
- In saucepan, melt ½ c. butter. Stir in brown sugar and honey and cook for 4-6 minutes or until sugar dissolves and is smooth.
- Let cool slightly.
- Pour sauce into prepared pan.
- Arrange fig halves, cut sides down in circles over the sauce.
- In a large bowl, beat remaining 1 c. butter with electric mixer for 1-2 minutes or until creamy.
- Add sugar and vanilla, beat until creamy.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.
- Gradually add butter mixture, alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
- Spoon batter over figs in pan.
- Bake 45-50 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
- Cool in pan on wire rack for 1 hour.
- Carefully run knife around edge of cake to loosen, and invert onto a serving plate.
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