Upside Down Date Cake
Upside Down Date Cake

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, upside down date cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

A Middle Eastern classic cake, tweaked to perfection! Soft and moist vanilla cake topped with lightly candied black dates. Serve warm for the ultimate comfort! This cake is the Middle East's answer to pineapple upside down cake!

Upside Down Date Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Upside Down Date Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have upside down date cake using 15 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Upside Down Date Cake:
  1. Take Syrup
  2. Make ready 20-25 dates
  3. Take 4.5 tbsp Unsalted butter (room temperature)
  4. Prepare 120 g light brown sugar
  5. Prepare 1 tbsp Honey
  6. Take Juice of half a lemon
  7. Take Cake base
  8. Take 215 g Self raising flour
  9. Make ready 3 Eggs
  10. Prepare 2.5 tsp Baking powder
  11. Get 2 tsp Cinnamon
  12. Prepare Pinch salt
  13. Make ready 325 g Caster sugar
  14. Take 2/3 tsp Vanilla extract
  15. Prepare 160 ml Whole milk

Stir in the brown sugar, orange juice and cinnamon until blended. Next, add the warm date mixture in two batches. Scrape down the sides of bowl in between mixing. The dough will now be quite watery but don't worry!

Instructions to make Upside Down Date Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 175 degrees
  2. 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.
  3. Add the syrup to the cake tin. Aim to use a tin with an attached base.
  4. Cut the dates in half lengthways and remove the stone.
  5. Place the dates skin side touching the syrup in concentric circles. Keep them tightly packed side by side.
  6. Start making the cake mixture by adding together all the dry ingredients apart from the caster sugar in a mixing bowl.
  7. In a separate mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar until light and creamy. Add the vanilla extract.
  8. Add three quarters of the milk to the eggs and sugar mixture. Mix well.
  9. 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.
  10. Add cake mixture on top of the dates and syrup.
  11. Bake for 60 - 70 mins in the preheated oven (175 degrees Celsius). A skewer inserted into the middle should come out clean.
  12. Leave to cool for 2 - 3 mins then turn upside down on a wire rack then serve on a plate.

Scrape down the sides of bowl in between mixing. The dough will now be quite watery but don't worry! Finally add the baking powder (this will bubble up also). Pour the batter evenly into the two pans or muffin tins. This Sticky Date Upside-Down Cake is another take on the sticky date genre but this way there's enough to share!

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