Apple Upside-Down Gingerbread Recipe

3 large baking apples, sliced into thin wedges
1/4 cup butter
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup unsulphered molasses, light or dark
1 1/2 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
2 tsp ground ginger
1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup boiling water

In a 9 inch square metal pan, melt 1/4 cup of the butter over very low heat.
Add 1/2 cup of the brown sugar and stir until blended. Add the apple slices,
then cover the pan loosely and allow the apples to cook gently while preparing
the cake batter.
Preheat the oven to 350 F. In a mixing bowl, beat together the remaining
1/2 cup butter and 1/2 cup sugar until light. Add the egg and molasses and beat
until well blended. Sift together the flour, salt, soda and spices, and divide
this mixture in half. Fold half of the flour mixture into the butter mixture,
then stir in the boiling water. Fold in the other half of the flour mixture, and
stir just until well blended. Remove the pan of apples from the heat, and spoon
the batter over them.
Bake the cake until it is springy to the touch, 30 to 40 minutes. Let cool on a
rack about 5 minutes, then invert onto a serving plate. Serve with whipped cream.

Yield: one 9-inch square cake.

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