Upside Down Butterscotch Apple Sour Cream Cake

Submitted by grandma2969

"This came from Country Living or some magazine I saw at my mother's....have not had a chance to make it yet"

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• CAKE

• 1 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 cup butter, room temperature
• 2 large eggs
• 2⁄3 cup superfine sugar
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1⁄2 cup sour cream
• 3⁄4 cup golden delicious apple, peeled, cored, finely chopped

• BUTTERSCOTCH CARAMEL

• 6 tablespoons butter
• 1⁄3 cup butterscotch chips
• 2 -8 ounces golden delicious apples, peeled, halved, cored, cut in 1/2-inch slices

directions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in medium bowl.set aside.
3. In large bowl, beat butter till smooth, gradually add sugar and beat till blended -- add eggs and vanilla, beat till blended.
4. Beat in flour mixture, then sour cream -- Stir in chopped apple.set aside while preparing butterscotch caramel sauce.

5. TO PREPARE SAUCE:

6. Melt butter in a 10" nonstick ovenproof skillet over medium heat -- add brown sugar and butterscotch morsels, stir till melted and smooth and bubbly -- about 2 minutes.
7. Add apple slices and cook till golden, using tongs to turn slices.about 3 minutes per side.(there will be a lot of liquid in skillet) -- remove skillet from heat and cool for 3 minutes.
8. Arrange apple slices in skillet in pattern.
9. Carefully spoon batter dollops atop apple slices.
10. Using an offset spatula, spread batter (batter will seem to float on apples and juices).
11. Bake till golden brown -- about 30 minutes.
12. Cool in skillet 10 minutes.
13. Invert onto large serving platter -- serve warm.