Apple Upside-Down Banana Cake

By dashy_65

Ingredients

• 1 T. butter or margarine, melted
• 1/4 c. firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 1/2 c. thinly sliced peeled Granny Smith apple
• 1 1/4 c. flour
• 1 t. B.P.
• 3/4 t. cinnamon
• 1/2 t. soda
• 1/4 t. nutmeg
• 1/8 t. salt
• 1/4 c. butter or margarine, softened]
• 1/3 c. sugar
• 1/3 c. firmly packed brown sugar
• 1/2 c. mashed ripe bananas
• 1 t. vanilla
• 1 large egg
• 1/4 c. orange juice
• 2 T. finely chopped pecans, toasted

Details

Servings 8

Preparation

Step 1

Coat bottom of 9" round cake pan with melted butter. Sprinkle 1/4 cup brown sugar over butter. Arrange apple slices spokelike, working from center of pan to edge; set aside.

Combine flour and next 5 ingds. (flour through salt) in a bowl, stir well. Set aside. Beat 1/4 cup butter, and sugars at medium speed of mixer until well blended. Add banana, vanilla, and egg; beat well. Add flour mixture to creamed mixture alternately with orange juice, beginning and ending with flour mixture; beat well after each addition. Stir in pecans. Pour batter over apple slices.

Bake 350* for 30 mins. or until toothpick comes out clean. Let cool in pan 5 minutes on wire rack. Loosen cake from sides of pan, using narrow metal spatula. Invert onto cake plate; cut into wedges. Serve Warm.

280 cal, 9.4g fat, 47g carb, 1.8g fiber, 214mg sodium