Apple Upside-Down Date-Nut Gingerbread Cake

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Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon  stick margarine, melted
  • 1/4 cup  firmly packed brown sugar
  • 2 cups  thinly sliced peeled Granny Smith apple
  • 1 1/4 cups  all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon  ground ginger
  • 1 teaspoon  ground cinnamon
  • 3/4 teaspoon  baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon  ground nutmeg
  • 1/8 teaspoon  salt
  • 1/8 teaspoon  ground cloves
  • 1/4 cup  stick margarine, softened
  • 1/3 cup  granulated sugar
  • 1/3 cup  molasses
  • 1 large egg
  • 1/2 cup  plain fat-free yogurt
  • 1/3 cup  chopped pitted dates
  • 3 tablespoons  chopped walnuts

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350°.

Coat bottom of a 9-inch round cake pan with melted margarine. Sprinkle brown sugar over margarine. Arrange apple slices spokelike over brown sugar, working from center of pan to edge; set aside.

Combine flour and next 6 ingredients (flour through cloves) in a bowl; stir well. Set aside. Beat 1/4 cup margarine and granulated sugar at medium speed of a mixer until well-blended. Add molasses and egg; beat well. Add flour mixture to creamed mixture alternately with yogurt, beginning and ending with flour mixture; beat well after each addition. Stir in dates and walnuts. Pour batter over apple slices.

Bake at 350° for 40 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool in pan 5 minutes on a wire rack. Loosen cake from sides of pan, using a narrow metal spatula. Invert onto a cake plate; cut into wedges. Serve warm.

298 cal, 9.6g fat, 50.6g carb, 2.1g fiber, 266mg sod.