Upside Down Date Cake
Upside Down Date Cake

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, upside down date cake. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Upside Down Date Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Upside Down Date Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. 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. Prepare 20-25 dates
  3. Get 4.5 tbsp Unsalted butter (room temperature)
  4. Prepare 120 g light brown sugar
  5. Take 1 tbsp Honey
  6. Get Juice of half a lemon
  7. Take Cake base
  8. Prepare 215 g Self raising flour
  9. Prepare 3 Eggs
  10. Make ready 2.5 tsp Baking powder
  11. Make ready 2 tsp Cinnamon
  12. Prepare Pinch salt
  13. Get 325 g Caster sugar
  14. Take 2/3 tsp Vanilla extract
  15. Prepare 160 ml Whole milk
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.

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