Caramel-Date Upside-Down Cake

Name: Caramel-Date Upside-Down Cake
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 8 serving(s)
Ingredients: 2/3 cup golden brown sugar, packed; 6 tablespoons unsalted butter; 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 10 ounces medjool dates, quartered lengthwise and pitted (about 14); 1 3/4 cups cake flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature; 1/2 cup sugar; 1/4 cup golden brown sugar, packed; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 large eggs, room temperature; 2/3 cup buttermilk; whipped cream

Submitted by Queen Dana

"bonappetit march 2009"

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Ready In:: 50mins
Ingredients:: 16
Serves:: 8

ingredients

Topping
²⁄₃ cup golden brown sugar, packed
6 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
¹⁄₄ teaspoon salt
10 ounces medjool dates, quartered lengthwise and pitted (about 14)
Cake
1 ³⁄₄ cups cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
¹⁄₄ teaspoon salt
¹⁄₂ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
¹⁄₂ cup sugar
¹⁄₄ cup golden brown sugar, packed
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs, room temperature
²⁄₃ cup buttermilk
whipped cream

directions

Topping:.
Preheat oven to 350°F Place sugar and butter in 9-inch diameter metal cake pan with 3-inch high sides. Whisk over medium heat until sugar dissolves, butter melts, and sauce is bubbling thickly, about 3 minutes. Whisk lemon juice and salt. Remove from heat and cool 5 minutes.
Arrange date quarters in 3 concentric circles in caramel, rounded side down, covering completely.
Cake:.
Sift first 4 ingredients into medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat butter and both sugars in large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla, then eggs, 1 at a time. Beat in dry ingredients in 3 additions alternately with buttermilk in 2 additions. Spoon batter over topping in pan.
Place cake pan on large baking sheet. Bake cake until puffed and golden and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 50 minutes.
Cool cake in pan on rack 14 minutes. Cut around pan sides and invert warm cake onto platter. Carefully lift pan. Return any dates that stick to pan to top of cake. Scrape any caramel left in pan over cake.
Serve cake warm or at room temperature with whipped cream.

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Queen Dana

United States

I love trying new dishes. For me, food is a way of experiencing the world without leaving my home, and I'm hoping that as my two sons get older that I can convince them to come with me on my culinary adventures.

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