Maple-Honey Upside Down Apple Cake & Mango-Orange & Passion Fruit Tequila Sunrise

Dec 15, 2014

Maple-Honey Upside Down Apple Cake & Mango-Orange & Passion Fruit Tequila Sunrise – Candy Coated Culinista

For the first time since my childhood I went trip to a book fair and it was just like I remembered it. I went to the Toronto International Book Fair and visited many independent publishers and writers. I even came across Scholastics; publishers that I used to love as a child and still do today. There were authors and artist on hand having book signings and workshops and after a few hours at the fair I of course came home with a few more cookbooks and Robert Muncsh stories. One of the books that caught my eye was the lovely cover of Homemade Decadence.

Slightly Altered from Homemade Decadence – Joy The Baker

Maple-Honey Upside-down Apple Cake

Yield/Serving: 12” cake
Prep Time: 15 min.
Cook Time: 40 min.
Difficulty level is: Medium

Ingredients
Apples
• 4 golden delicious apples, cored and cut into ½” wedges
• ½ cup Canadian maple syrup
• ½ cup firmly packed golden brown sugar
• ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
• ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
Cake
• 1½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
• ½ teaspoon sea salt
• ¾ cup (1½ sticks) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
• 2 large eggs
• ¼ cup organic honey
• ½ cup packed golden brown sugar
• 1 golden delicious apples, peeled, cored and grated

Assembly
1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Grease the cast-iron skillet with unsalted butter.
3. Fan the apples wedges in a circular fashion on the outside part of the skillet.
4. In a medium size saucepan over medium-high heat, combine maple syrup, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg until butter melts and let simmer for 4 minutes.
5. Pour half of the syrup over the apples and set aside the remaining.
6. Using a large bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, sea salt.
7. In a medium size bowl combine the melted butter, eggs, honey, sugar and the grated apple.
8. Pour the wet mixture and whisk into the dry mixture until just combined.
9. Dollop mixture over top of the apples and smooth out.
10. Bake for 40 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
11. Let cool for 5 minutes and then run a knife along the edges of the cake to loosed and then turn out onto a platter.
12. Drizzle with the remaining syrup and serve.

Tips
• The cake will keep for up to 3 days

Please Enjoy
Mango-Passion fruit Tequila Sunrise

Yield/Serving: 1
Prep Time: 5 min.
Cook Time: 2 min.
Difficulty level is: Easy

Ingredients
• 1cup mango orange juice
• 1 oz tequila
• 2 tbsp grenadine
• 1 cup passion fruit juice
• 6 ice cubes
• 1 pint glass
• 1 drinking glass

Assembly
1. In a drinking glass mix together the mango orange juice and tequila and set aside.
2. In the pint glass pour the grenadine in and top with ice cubes.
3. Pour in the passion fruit juice.
4. Slowly pour in the mango tequila mixture.
5. Serve immediately.

My thoughts
Both Mr. C and myself found that the recipe lacked some flavour I also found it was a little dry and I would want more syrup. The tequila sunrise was lovely fruity, bright and punchy casual cocktail. I scaled back on the amount of alcohol to suit my liking and I loved the layers of colour. I will be making these again for sure.

Maple-Honey Upside Down Apple Cake – Candy Coated Culinista