Mini Apple Upside-down Cakes with Salted Butter Caramel… #applelove
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
Martin Luther
Sometimes I wonder if I love stone fruit more or apples. After hanging on to the last of summer fruit so desperately, I think I was childish. Apples are a whole new passion and hold so much versatility. Munch them or bake them, never ending possibilities… one such delightful possibility being these homey, comforting Mini Apple Upside-down Cakes with Salted Butter Caramel … #applelove!
I absolutely love the goodness of simple bakes. For me, individual portions hold eternal charm, so when I saw these delicious bites at Jamies place one day, I knew I would be baking them really soon. As I crept into Lifes A Feast while she was in sleeping {day here, night in Nantes}, I knew these little apple cakes were going to be good.
I also knew that the salted butter caramel sauce would be the most delicious sauce I had ever made! Mmmm … while the cakes baked, the addictive sauce cooled. Spoonfuls did the disappearing act as usual, the hungry little dwarves at work in the kitchen! 
These cakes are convenient to make. Great for a fast track fall/winter dessert, individual portions that warm the cockles of your heart, slathered in a buttery caramel sauce . C’est bon … caramel, butterscotch, butter, sweet, salty – all goodness in my little white jug, delicious thoughts happily playing in my head! It’s a good sauce to have in your recipe folder. 
Très savoureux!! These are tasty little cakes to make you happy this holiday season. Make a double helping of the salted butter caramel if you like as it stores well refrigerated. Reheat it in the microwave for 15-20 seconds and you’re good to go! I added a bit while whipping up my low fat cream for this Perfect Pumpkin Pie; I dare say that cream would make a delicious frosting for a cake!
Mini Apple Upside-down Cakes with Salted Butter Caramel Sauce
Ingredients
Mini Apple Upside-down Cakes
- ¼ cup (60 ml) water
- 2 – 3 Tbs granulated brown sugar
- 1 large apple, peeled, cored and diced
- 3 tbs (45 g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 1/3 cup (70 g) granulated white sugar
- 1 large egg
- ¾ cup (105 g) flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- pinch of salt
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 vanilla bean, scraped {optional}
- ¼ cup (60 ml) milk
Salted Butter Caramel Sauce
- 1 cup granulated white sugar
- 4 tbs salted butter
- 1 cup / 250ml low fat cream
Instructions
Mini Apple Upside-down Cakes {I made a double serving}
- Preheat the oven to 180°C. Butter 4 individual molds, each able to hold about 2/3 cups (150-160 ml).
- Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Reserve.
- Place the water and brown sugar in a heavy bottom pan and heat until the sugar is melted and the mixture begins to bubble. Add the diced apple and cook, stirring, for 10 - 12 minutes and the apple is tender and beginning to caramelize. Divide the cooked apple between the four molds.
- Cream the butter and sugar until blended and fluffy. Add the egg and scraped vanilla bean and continue beating until thick and pale. Blend in the milk and finally the sifted flour and cinnamon. Beat until smooth. Divide the batter evenly between the four molds on top of the apples.
- Place the molds on a baking sheet and bake for 20 – 25 minutes until the top is golden, the cake set and a tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from the oven, carefully lift or slide the molds off the baking sheet onto a cooling rack and allow to cool.
- Carefully slide a sharp knife around each cake to loosen from the mold and invert onto a dessert place. Drizzle each cake with as little or as much Salted Butter Caramel Sauce as desired. Serve immediately.
Salted Butter Caramel Sauce
- Melt the sugar in a medium-sized saucepan over medium-low heat and cook until completely melted and caramel in color. Lower the heat to low and whisk in the butter in about 3 or 4 additions.
- Continuing to whisk, add the cream in a slow stream; the caramel may foam up, but keep whisking, as it will calm down once all the cream is added and will turn to… a smooth caramel. Once it is smooth and creamy, remove from the heat and allow to cool at least to tepid before serving.
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About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.
21 Comments
Rosa
Surely divine! That caramel sauce looks just irresistible.
Cheers,
Rosa
Suma
Though I am not much of an apples in bakes person, you make this sound super-tempting! Love your molds and envy that you can fit in all of them in your big oven!! Awesome pics, as always!
thelittleloaf
These look gorgeous – I love any desserts served in individual portions and anything with apples is always a winner. But what really does it for me is that salted butter caramel sauce…divine!
dina
Amazing! I could taste the flavours just reading thu the post!!! Drooling over the pics!!!! Superbly done!
Dina x
raquel
I am craving for this recipe and all I can say this looks delicious
Laura
Those must be so tasty. I love apple cakes, so comforting.
CurryLeaf
Irresistable. Love apples and this one tops my to do list. GREAT Deeba
Himanshu
apples and cinnamon, i drool for…an upside down cake was on my big bake to-do list, but I always hesitated because of all those recipes which are there for bigger cakes. these tiny cakes look easy to manage and they are fab….so is the caramel….yum
simply.food
These look delicious and so well presented. Again do pls share this apple recipe with C.E.D.D Apples event @ simply.food.
Zee
not an apple baking person but this looks soooo tempting and specially the caramel sauce makes it must eat.. I will try this one soon. thanks for sharing 🙂
chinmayie @ love food eat
I have a few apples in the refrigerator right now so might just bake these little beauties… tempting!
lubna
yum yum yum……
Helene
I love mini dessert, especially with caramel sauce. Looks yummy!
Gera
You know I’m a dessert man really an apple love 🙂
That caramel sauce will be a staple in my menus – salted & sweet, great combo!
All the best,
Gera
mehak
thank you for the recipe it came out really well!!! check out my blog to see how it came out!!!
everyone wad drooling!!! thank you!!!you are amazing
a spoonful of yumm
oh my…..these look so delicious !!!
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Love & other Spices
The cakes look so divine through your lens.love it ! Adore apples and will surely give this a try..
Soumya
Hi Deeba,
I have been a fan of you, but after this one, you are my personal God 😀 Made these lovely cakes and the heavenly sauce that I can drink in liters, I am left speechless 🙂 My dinner guests of course went for second helpings.
I made the mistake of using regular cupcake paper cups though, it ran and became a little flat, but of course not in taste. Not a fan of baking with apples so far, now I am looking forward to making these again, just so that I can excuse myself for using up the sauce I made!
much love,
Soumya
Deeba @ PAB
Hi Anna,
Thank you for taking the time to write your thoughts and make me move. This was something that I intended to do for long, but it kept getting pushed to the back burner. I have begun the process … and hopefully shall get there soon. Thank you once again. Your words meant a LOT to me.
Joy
That just looks so good.