Upside Down Date Cake
Upside Down Date Cake

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Upside Down Date Cake 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! The upside-down cake never goes out of style — and it can be revived again and again by exploring different flavor combinations.

Upside Down Date Cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Upside Down Date Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook upside down date cake using 15 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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

Bring to boil, stirring a little to. Immediately run knife around side of pan to loosen cake. Place heatproof serving plate upside down onto pan; turn plate and pan over. Drain the softened dates, keeping the liquid for later use.

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.

Place heatproof serving plate upside down onto pan; turn plate and pan over. Drain the softened dates, keeping the liquid for later use. Mash the dates down with a fork into a paste. Put the pumpkin purée, coconut oil, molasses and puréed dates into the bowl of a stand or handheld mixer, and combine thoroughly. Sift together flour, salt, soda, and baking powder.

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