1889 Cake Recipe Revamped Apple Upside Down Cake - Glen And Friends Cooking
1889 Cake Recipe Revamped Apple Upside Down Cake - Glen And Friends Cooking
Today Glen Cooks a pretty sturdy cake recipe from 1889 - and we drag it into the future with some caramel, spices, and apples. This makes a great caramel apple upside down cake.
Ingredients:
Caramel:
60 mL (¼ cup) butter
125 mL (½ cup) brown sugar
Pinch of salt
2 mL (½ tsp) cinnamon
2 apples-peeled, cored and cut into wedges
Cake:
2 eggs
250 mL (1 cup) sugar
250 mL (1 cup) sour cream
5 mL (1 tsp) pure vanilla extract
2 mL (½ tsp) baking soda
500 mL (2 cups) flour
7 mL (1 ½ tsp) ground cinnamon
2 mL (½ tsp) ground ginger
1 mL (¼ tsp) ground nutmeg
2 mL (½ tsp) salt
Method:
Preheat oven to 180ºC (350ºF), grease and line a 9” round cake pan.
Combine butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt in a pot over medium heat.
Melt together and bring just to a simmer, then pour into base of cake pan.
Arrange apple pieces in the caramel.
Whisk the eggs until light and fluffy, then whisk in the sugar.
Whisk in the sour cream and vanilla.
Combine together the dry ingredients, then slowly stir these into the egg mixture.
Transfer to the cake pan over the apples, smooth the top, and bake for 30-35 minutes.
(probably a good idea to put a sheet pan under the cake pan.
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I always just love the "Happy Dance" after the tasting.
@asilverfoxintasmania9940
Жыл бұрын
You know its good when Glen does his happy dance!
@bodnica
4 ай бұрын
Me too
Thanks for watching Everyone! How would you change the flavours in this cake?
@lesliemoiseauthor
Жыл бұрын
Apples with pecans.
@CAP198462
Жыл бұрын
Saw this a while back, apparently it’s a thing. Lime in coffee, so I’m thinking lime zest and juice in the drizzle and coffee liqueur in the batter, maybe some pears if you need the texture.
@renaebettenhausen3611
Жыл бұрын
Dark chocolate, cocoa and cream.
@justmutantjed
Жыл бұрын
I think that I'd keep basically everything else as-is, but I might add a splash of good bourbon or rum to the caramel sauce, and go with peach slices instead of apples. For some reason that's calling out to me as the way to play.
@suzannax
Жыл бұрын
Rhubarb 😋
Because of channels like yours I've become more adventurous in the kitchen. Some dishes turn out good, then I have to try and duplicate it. Some are not so good. It is like Julie said. 'What's the worst that can happen?'
@jjudy5869
Жыл бұрын
If you can eat it, it's not a failure.
I really adore that happy dance, Glen!
Can you just imagine apricot? Or peach, or nectarine? Perfect recipe you've made there, Glen! Thanks!
@susanelainesanner
Жыл бұрын
Or persimmon!
Glenn did his Happy Dance! We have a winner!
If you use pears, I'd recommend adding a little bit of ginger to the caramel. Another flavor that would work well is cherry with almond and vanilla in the cake.
@williamkeith8944
Жыл бұрын
GREAT suggestions!
@amme30
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, I know what I am going to do with some of the glut of pears I have!
The dance of deliciousness 😂
@lesliemoiseauthor
Жыл бұрын
YES!
I may be crazy, but I would put strussel on top so you have crunch and the syrup on the bottom when you flip it. Maybe serve with ice cream or whipped cream to cut the sweetness.
@CAP198462
Жыл бұрын
With blueberries? 🤤
@oreally8605
Жыл бұрын
Excellent idea
@phranerphamily
Жыл бұрын
Yum! I want to come to your house for dessert
@honthirty_
Жыл бұрын
Prickly pear jam right in the middle layer!!!! Rich purple color & fruity flavor.
I began watching you on Facebook then switched to your KZread because it was way better... I gotta say, I love how neatly you cook. So many of the Facebook cooking videos, they're just so messy. They're wasteful too! I know it's a weird thing to enjoy, but there it is... Lol Also, I find your voice and manner very relaxing ❤️
German apple pancake in the oven sounds good.
Glen danced. He liked it!
I was waiting for this update, and I wasn't disappointed.
Love when you reboot an old recipe 👍🏼🍎
Brilliant, love your ideas and how you try to encourage people to be more creative and trust themselves more with baking!
@GlenAndFriendsCooking
Жыл бұрын
Thank You!
Thanks for this one Glen! We have had guests over the weekend for a memorial and I pulled this out for a quick dessert. It was warm, comforting and a big hit!
That looks so old fashioned and yummy. I have made apple upside down cake using a box of gingerbread mix for the cake. Never any leftovers!
I'll be right over. Drooling.
I appreciate your effort to include all the measurements in 'international' form as well, makes life so much easier when you are not having a hurdle to start 'translating' the quantities at first. I have glut of apples to deal with, but even by baking this cake is not going to empty my buckets....I'm going to make one and enjoy it with cup of tea. Thank you ...looking forward to my tomorrow's baking day!
A most attractive cake. Going to try it with plums and cardamom
Good Lord, how do you two keep your figures with the wonderful food you make?
I'm thinking orange cranberry would be lovely.
I can’t believe you two don’t have a cup of coffee or tea every time you have dessert.
Yum - you always make the best stuff. Thank you so much for doing you. Have a great weekend.
That looks deeeeelicious.
Making this tomorrow!!! I love the idea that instead of the pineapple, you lose the pine and just use the apple! Ooooh, pear, ginger, and apple topping! Sold!! #YUM
Sweet
Spartan apples are lovely. Not commercially available here in the UK. However, I once knew an elderly lady who had a Spartan apple tree, so I got to taste some.
That looks so good.
Love hearing the empowerment.
Made this yesterday, it turned out delicious !!
Gonna try this tomorrow!
I love how you inspire people
I see those muffins on the side!
mmm, that looks so yum, and the pear idea sounds good, too.
I plan on trying this
I had the chance to make this tonight. It really deserves the little happy dance.
When I see the Glen dance and fist pump I know that cake must be good.
I love your little dance of joy when you really like what you have made, Glen. I reportedly do something very similar!
Exactly what I was researching last evening. Thank you I will make it.
Oh gosh, when you removed the pan & I said YUM! This is a must try once we pick some apples! Thank you!
Nice, Glen and Julie!!
Merci, I wrote the recipe down and will make it this week. Got to use up our apples of our tree.
Had I not read the title, from the thumbnail I would have guessed this was a meatloaf LOL!
Would be good with pecans, or walnuts in the syrup.
Hi Glen & Julie! I live in Kitchener (near Toronto) and buy Gay Lea Gold premium sour cream for the same reason. It contains 3 ingredients: milk ingredients, bacterial culture, microbial enzyme. SO THICK and luxurious! I sometimes buy the Liberte Greek yogurt but mostly stick with the sour cream.
Nice variation on a theme. What about cherry and nutmeg?
I made this cake last week. I made it exactly as Glen did except a slight bit more Lemon extract. My daughter said "it tastes exactly like Starbucks' lemon loaf." I hope that is a compliment. I will be making a version like this during the week. cheers
Suggestions for modifying this to a pecan pie inspired version? Maybe a splash of bourbon.
@joantrotter3005
Жыл бұрын
That sounds just heavenly! But try with dark rum in the syrup and bourbon in the batter. That was Gramma Katherine's "secret" for peach cobbler.
Sounds and looks wonderful.
Awesome!!
My toddler says "hi Glen!".
There is no one who can multi task like a home cook. Make caramel...answer phone... pull out rest of ingredients... wipe kids or dogs feet...pre heat oven ...start dinner...whip eggs... ect
I was wondering where you were. Thanks for another great recipe video.
Another Great Video.
Hey Glen ... and Friends ... love this channel so glad i found it 2 years ago when i was looking for canadian covid related short supply cooking (growing up in canada i used to watch all the cooking shows (before they got all commercialized and became more reality-tv focused) and this channel filled my nostalgia for those shows that i missed plus great tips and recipes and i love that you go into some of the history for each recipe ... but one question i have why do the shells of the eggs you cook with always look wet?? do you rinse/wash them off -- or maybe get them farm fresh ... because the eggs i use dont have that extra sheen to them -- just curious
Can we get a tour of the cold room and you show how to keep apples fresh for a year?
A case for mace! Glen is straying into limerick territory.
Looks so good Glen. FYI PC plain Greek yogurt has just the two ingredients as well. That’s what I use. I also use it for a starter when I make yogurt in the Instant Pot. 🙋🏻🇨🇦
@lynngreydanus-smith8816
Жыл бұрын
I like the same brands as glen 🇨🇦 I live near his old childhood summer place
It really is the base to any type of banana bread apple bread or streusel 🤤it's thick and dents enough ✨😘 Good job Glenn 😎
I love upsidedown cakes and I've experimented with lots of different fruits from bananas and nectarines to plums and cherries, all which are great, but I never tried apples for some reason. I'm going to give it a try now, thanks :D
I checked my sour cream after watching this. It had gelatin and guar gum in it. I never would have guessed. Thanks though for saying use what you have. You're very understanding.
Lemon with blueberry, strawberry rhubarb... Oh, the possibilities!
I consider myself comfortable in the kitchen but paranoid enough to not let anything alone - have had enough things go wrong…
I admire your knowledge of historic recipes. Would it be possible to recreate a dish in honour of Queen Elizabeth? Perhaps the classic Coronation Chicken - created on occasion of her coronation in 1953. I am almost sure that Glen has a stack of vintage cook booklets from that era.
I would make it thinner, in the sense of just a bit bigger than a flan. For fruit, I'd go with apricot. Or whatever is in season, really. Year old Spartan's? Ha ha. "Use what you have", indeed. And to answer Julie's question: what's the worst that can happen? That's what whipped cream -- no wait, dollop cream -- is for.
Schnozberries with schnozberry jam!
I made this earlier tonight, turned out well. I will try something like Greek yoghurt next time and use a slightly wider pan and see how it goes
Looks delicious!! I’m curious what the texture of the long stored apples was like 🍎🤔
I knew youd do this, it was the same cake we did in home ec in Aus back in the early 90s. That cook books 1st ed was 66. You can lemon your butter up. Tea cake is a multicake. If you like a flavour. Lean into it and do it. As long as its not icing.
Peach, blackberry and cherry upside-down cakes are really good. I didn't make them, so I dont know what seasonings were used.
Perhaps a splash of Gran Marnier in the cake if you go down the orange route?
@joantrotter3005
Жыл бұрын
I didn't have any lemon for my banana bread awhile ago and used orange juice concentrate. It was good with both strawberry jam, and cream cheese frosting with coconut rum. Vanilla buttercream was ok. Chocolate hummus is usually perfect when I use vanilla and lemon, but tasted wrong with the orange in my opinion. Good luck and happy experimenting!
I need a glass of milk now
Poppy seeds and lemon marmalade
Orange zest in the cake would add the orange to the cake itself.
Oh my. Look at the inside rim between 8:45 and 8:53.
May we please have Julie’s family recipe for the Christmas jujube cake. It used to be my family’s favorite but we unfortunately lost the recipe 😢
This reminds me of a cake I made called War Cake. It was from a cookbook containing recipes from World War II.
also mango would work well for this recipe
I wonder if you can use a simple syrup as a caramel stand in. I'm thinking a sage syrup with fresh blueberries
the turn over!
I really want to know why an apple will last a year in Glen's cold room but not a year in my fridge?
@GlenAndFriendsCooking
Жыл бұрын
Humidity - refrigerators pull a lot of humidity out of the air inside the fridge, creating a relatively dry environment. Too dry for apple storage.
@roxanne533
Жыл бұрын
@@GlenAndFriendsCooking thank you for explaining!
@tarantularancher5748
Жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same exact thing. Really puts another spin on heirloom fruits and vegetables…
Would it be adaptable as a sweet potato upside down cake?
I live in Miami, FL. What is a cold room? Is that like a root cellar?
Apples in the cold room for a year?!!! How did they keep?
@Rubbe87
Жыл бұрын
Winter apples probably
@GlenAndFriendsCooking
Жыл бұрын
@@anderander5662 Just underground and isolated from the heat of the house - keeps a pretty constant cool temp and humidity for root vegetables and apples.
@GlenAndFriendsCooking
Жыл бұрын
@@anderander5662 Probably not - even the ground temp would be too warm?
@rabidsamfan
Жыл бұрын
@@anderander5662 If your water table isn’t too high it is a good excuse to get a backyard tornado shelter.
I beg pineapple would go good too, after Julie said it
9:32 big air bubble. did you tapnthe cake on the bench to remove any aur bubbles?
👍👍👍👍👍👍
@lanceharsh7025
Жыл бұрын
Because 1 thumbs up isn't enough
Hi Glen. Is ot safe to add the yogurt to the copper bowl? I thought one should avoid acid in copper. But you also add baking soda so maybe that's enough to neutralize it?
@GlenAndFriendsCooking
Жыл бұрын
For the length of time and amount of weak acid - it's perfectly fine.
How about pumpkin? Wouldn’t that be good?
Is it good enough to justify buying a copper bowl?
This looks wonderful. My only complaint is that it is a misnamed cake, as I think it is much more of a butterscotch apple upside down cake than a caramel one. 😀
I'm surprised that you didn't have sour cream since it's so easy to make yourself. One part cultured Buttermilk and three parts whipping cream mixed together. Leave it out on the counter, in a sealed container, for a day (longer if it's cold) then refrigerate.
@Default78334
Жыл бұрын
I'm far more likely to have sour cream in my fridge than buttermilk, which I only buy when I'm specifically planning bake with it.
@joe1138gz
Жыл бұрын
@@Default78334 I like Buttermilk so it's often in my refrigerator but I understand that not everyone likes it.
Hello everyone!
I am surprised the recipe doesn't call for sifting the flour and then folding into the eggs with a metal spoon, but clearly it works all the same!
Glen, I’m surprised that you don’t make you own yogurt.
😎👍👌✌🖖🤓
What's spices would be good with pear?
@joantrotter3005
Жыл бұрын
Cinnamon and nutmeg.
@twixxbar07
Жыл бұрын
Apple pie spices complement pear pretty well. Just a little less than you'd use normally for apple
@virginiaf.5764
Жыл бұрын
Ginger is excellent with pears.
@saracurrens2651
Жыл бұрын
Cardamom
Oh no! The Food Police will come knocking at your door in the middle of the night if you mix up the flavors! But who told them?
#GlenAndFriendsCooking I think there's a mistake in your written recipe. You call for 2 cups/500ml of flour. 1 cup of flour is 120 gm (or ml), so 2 cups would be 240 gm/ml. Your metric amount is double what your per-cup amount calls for. I made the cake today and used the cup-weight measurement (240 gm flour) and the cake came out beautifully. Doubling the flour would have led to a completely un-stirable and un-pourable batter.
@GlenAndFriendsCooking
11 ай бұрын
The recipe is correct. You just don't understand Metric; all the Metric measurements in this recipe are by VOLUME (mL) there are no weight measurements given (g). You can't use a scale to make this recipe. *You can't weigh a mL because it's a volume measurement - UNLESS you are weighing distilled water at 4ºC, that is the only time 1g = 1mL = 1 Cubic Centimetre
@catherinewhite2943
10 ай бұрын
@@GlenAndFriendsCooking I have simply never before seen a baking recipe that used metric volume for flour; all metric measurements have been by weight in grams.
@GlenAndFriendsCooking
10 ай бұрын
@@catherinewhite2943 Canadians use volume mL for cooking - so do many other Commonwealth countries. Metric isn't always about weight.