Apple Upside-down Gingerbread

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs	Dutch		8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4	T	Unsalted butter, melted
3/4	c	Light brown sugar
3		Granny Smith apples, or
		other tart apples
		peeled
		halved cored and sliced
		thin
2 1/4	c	Sifted unbleached
		all-purpose flour
1/2	t	Baking soda
1/2	t	Salt
2	t	Powdered ginger
1	t	Ground cinnamon
1/2	t	Ground cloves
1/2	t	Ground nutmeg
1/2	t	Ground allspice
1	t	Dutch process cocoa
8	T	Unsalted butter, melted then
		cooled to room
		temperature
3/4	c	Light unsulphured molasses
3/4	c	Granulated white sugar
1/2	c	Buttermilk
1/2	c	Milk
1		Egg

INSTRUCTIONS

For the apple topping: Grease sides of 1 1 -by-7-by-1 1/2-inch metal
pan. Pour melted unsalted butter into pan-, spread brown sugar evenly
over pan bottom. Arrange apple slices, overlapping slightly, on brown
sugar mixture. Adjust oven rack to center position and heat oven to
350 degrees. For the gingerbread: whisk together flour, baking soda,
salt,ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, allspice, and cocoa in medium
bowl. Beat butter, molasses, sugar, buttermilk, milk, and egg in  large
bowl of an electric mixer on low speed. Add dry ingredients to  liquid"
beat on medium speed until batter is smooth and thick, about  1 minute,
scraping down sides of bowl with rubber spatula as needed.  Do not
overmix. (If using fresh ginger, batter will be lumpy.)  Working
quickly, pour batter over apple slices. Bake until top  springs back
when lightly touched, and edges have pulled away from  the pan sides,
about 50 to 60 minutes. Set pan on wire cake rack and  let cool 5
minutes. Invert onto serving  plate, cut into squares, and serve.
Serves 8.  Cook's Illustrated, Nov./Dec. 1995, Page 23. Credit: Judy
Monroe.  Nationality: USA Course: dessert Season:any Method: baked
Start to Finish 2 hours Preparation 15 minutes Attention 1 1/2 hours
Finishing 5 minutes  Converted from Mangia!, Cook's Illustrated
1993-1995 Cookbook  Recipe by: Cook's Illustrated, Nov./Dec. 1995, Page
23.  Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by "Hobbs, D B                 USO"
<hobbs@lbcapo1.uso.unisys.com> on Mar 16, 1998

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 351 Calories From Fat: 67 Total Fat: 7.7g Cholesterol: 40.3mg Sodium: 259.7mg Potassium: 193.5mg Carbohydrates: 59.6g Fiber: 2.6g Sugar: 2.3g Protein: 9.8g

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