Cherry-nectarine Upside-down Cake

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy		Cakes, Cooking lig	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	T	Stick Margarine Or Butter
		Melted
1/4	c	Brown Sugar, Packed
1	c	Pitted Sweet Cherries
2	c	Nectarines, Thinly Sliced
1	t	Lemon Juice
1	c	All-Purpose Flour, Plus 2 T
2	T	Sliced Almonds, Toasted And
		Ground
1	t	Baking Powder
1/2	t	Baking Soda
1/8	t	Salt
2/3	c	Granulated Sugar
1/4	c	Stick Margarine Or Butter
		Softened
1	t	Vanilla Extract
1/2	t	Almond Extract
1		Egg
2/3	c	Low-Fat Buttermilk

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat bottom of a 9-inch round cake pan
with melted margarine. Sprinkle brown sugar over margarine. Place 1
cherry in center of pan; arrange remaining cherries around edge of
pan. Combine nectarines and lemon juice; toss well. Arrange nectarine
slices spokelike, working from center cherry to edge of cherries.
Lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife.
Combine flour, almonds, baking powder, soda, and salt in a bowl. Beat
2/3 c granulated sugar and 1/4 c margarine at medium speed of a mixer
until well blended. Add extracts and egg; beat well. Add flour  mixture
to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and  ending
with flour mixture; beat well after each addition. Slowly pour  batter
over fruit.  Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until a wooden pick
inserted in  center comes out clean. Cool in pan 5 minutes on a wire
rack. Loosen  cake form sides of pan using a narrow metal spatula.
Invert onto a  cake plate; cut into wedges. Serve warm.  Recipe by:
Cooking Light, J/F 98, pg. 181  Posted to recipelu-digest by Jill & Joe
Proehl <jpxtwo@swbell.net> on  Mar 02, 1998

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 268 Calories From Fat: 82 Total Fat: 9.4g Cholesterol: 25.1mg Sodium: 265.1mg Potassium: 178.6mg Carbohydrates: 43.1g Fiber: 1.6g Sugar: 29g Protein: 4.1g