GF WF Caramelized Apple Cake

INGREDIENTS



TOPPING

1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup apple juice
1 Tbsp each lemon juice
1Tbls butter
4 medium eating apples, peeled, cored and each cut into 8 wedges

CAKE

110g butter, softened
2/3 cup sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp each baking soda
1/2 tsp ground mixed spice
1/4 tsp salt
2 large eggs
1 1/4 cups GF plain flour (Orgran or similar)
2/3 cup buttermilk

Method:

Heat oven to 350ºF.
You'll need a 9 x 2-in. round spring form cake tin greased.


Topping:

Mix sugar and apple juice in a large nonstick frypan; bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
Boil mixture 4 minutes or until light honey color.
Add lemon juice and butter; reduce heat to medium.
When butter is melted, boil mixture 1 minute, until light golden.
Add apples, flat sides down; cook 8 minutes, turning apples with a fork after 4 minutes,
until lightly caramelized and crisp-tender when pierced with a skewer.
Remove from heat; cool in frypan for 5 minutes.

Cake:

Pour the apple mixture from frypan into prepared cake tin; use a fork to arrange in concentric circles.
Beat butter, sugar, GF baking powder, vanilla, baking soda, mixed spice and salt
with a mixer in a medium bowl 2 minutes.
Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, until blended.
Beat in GF flour and buttermilk alternately, in three additions, until batter is smooth.
Pour batter over apples; spread to edge of pan.
Bake 40 to 45 minutes, until a coctail stick inserted in center comes out clean.

Cool in pan on wire rack 10 minutes.
Invert onto a serving plate.
Cool until cake is just warm, then serve. (This cake is also delicious cold.)