Fresh Mango Cake

This cake brings rave reviews as well as is a prissy alter from the predictable pineapple upside-down cake. The cake is sweet, really lite as well as tender as well as the fruit keeps it deliciously moist. We ate it warm, alongside H2O ice cream afterwards dinner tonight.

 

Preheat your oven to 350F as well as spray a circular 9" x 2" cake pan alongside vegetable spray. Line the bottom of the pan alongside parchment newspaper as well as hence spray it again.

BOILED SYRUP LAYER (goes nether the batter)
1 loving cup white sugar
¼ teaspoon lemon juice
¼ loving cup mutual depression temperature water

Arrange one pound of modest diced mango inward the bottom of the parchment lined cake pan, as well as sprinkle VERY LIGHTLY alongside some cinnamon sugar. Note: I threw inward a few maraschino cherry pieces for color.

In a heavy bottomed  sauce pan, stir 1 loving cup saccharide + lemon juice as well as mutual depression temperature H2O together. Bring to boil on medium heat, stirring 1 time inward a while, until it starts to plough amber. Watch carefully, because 1 time it starts to plough color, because it volition darken quickly. After it turns lite amber, pour evenly over the mango as well as gear upwards aside spell y'all brand the batter.

CAKE LAYER
1½ cups all piece of occupation flour
1¾ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon solid soil ginger
½ teaspoon solid soil cinnamon
½ loving cup whole milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
½ loving cup butter (room temperature)
1 loving cup packed chocolate-brown sugar
2 large eggs
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In a modest bowl, mix flour, baking powder, ginger as well as cinnamon together, gear upwards aside. In some other modest bowl, mix milk as well as vanilla extract, gear upwards aside.
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With electrical mixer, vanquish the room temperature butter for 1 minute, or until it is lite as well as fluffy; add together chocolate-brown saccharide as well as vanquish on high for iii minutes. Reduce speed as well as add together eggs, 1 at a time, beating good afterwards each. Make certain y'all scrape downwardly the sides of the bowl 1 time inward a while.

Now y'all take away to mix inward the milk mixture as well as the flour mixture, simply brand certain y'all alternate (dry...milk...dry...milk etc.). Scrape downwardly the bowl as well as hit it 1 terminal mix simply don't mix every bit good long. Pour the batter over the mango as well as syrup layer.

 

 

Bake at 350F for 35 to 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted inward oculus of cake comes out build clean (it takes 45 minutes inward my electrical oven). Remove from oven as well as allow the cake cool inward the pan for fifteen minutes. Run a sparse knife unopen to the border to loosen, hence invert on a serving plate as well as pare off the parchment paper; serve warm. This cake is fantabulous alongside whipped cream or H2O ice cream.

 

NOTE: Do not brand this inward a leap cast pan because the sauce mightiness leak out.

NOTE: You tin sack brand this alongside well-nigh whatever sort of fruit, blueberries piece of occupation nicely too.

NOTE: The fruit might appear quite moisture when y'all get-go invert the cake, simply every bit it cools off, the sauce thickens considerably.