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| Upside Down (but oh-so-right) Baked Apple Cake |
Anne Shirley has a fondness for apples. Anne Shirley likes to walk through orchards (and talk to apple trees). Surely, I felt it was only appropriate to make something with apples. Like Anne, I also like apples, but way less passionately. But I like baked apple things best. Additionally, this one time, Anne fell upside down off a roof that one time at schoolcamp (don't walk on the roof, duh). Naturally, I felt it was only in good form to create a cake that incorporated the best of Anne and moi. And also, I decided not to give my lactose intolerant guests reason to break a slate over my head on a mad dash to the bathroom...so I settled on tweaking Amy Traverso's Lowfat Gingerbread Applesauce Cake recipe from her cookbook,
The Apple Lover's Cookbook. The result was prettttty darn tasty. And also 100% dairy free! (Unless of course you choose to celebrate Anne's love of ice cream, like I did).
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You too can dedicate your entire
kitchen countertop to the
creation of this cake. |
A few things to note, however. The first is that I think there is a typo in
The Apple Lover's Cookbook recipe for the cake base here; it tells you to use the baking soda in both step 2 and 3, but only describes it in step 2; I erred on the side of descriptive chemical reaction and used it all there. Maybe you're supposed to split it...maybe not? Only Amy knows! It seemed to turn out fine, so perhaps it is a moot point. Second: the cook time needed to be extended about 30 minutes when I added the baked apple component to this recipe. Thirdly, I used blackstrap molasses instead of light or medium molasses, which makes the cake slightly less sweet, I think, which worked well because the added apples and sugar from the baked apple part are quite sugary. Really, I just didn't want to get another jar of molasses when I already had some in the cabinet. Fourthly, I forced myself to give most of the cake away to my guests; it is the kind of good that means I know I'd find myself standing in the refrigerator door intending to take out a piece, warm it up, and then eat it...only to have three pieces disappear before one makes it into the microwave. That good. Anne of Green Gables cake, unlike Count of Monte Cristo cake, is a dish best served warm. Because bosoms (friends) are warm, you guys.
Upside Down Baked Apple Cake
based on Amy Traverso's Lowfat Gingerbread Applesauce Cake recipe in The Apple Lover's Cookbook
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| Upside Down (but oh-so-right) Baked Apple Cake |
