upside down apple cake

Ingredients

• 4 apples
• 1 pound, or about 450 gr, or about 3,5 cups all purpose flour (we can also use self raising flour)
• 1 cup butter room temperature
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 4 eggs
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• juice of 1 lemon

for the caramel syrup

• 2 cups brown sugar
• 1,5 cups water

Instructions
Peal the apples, remove seeds and cut into thin slices.
Rinse the apples with lemon juice in order to avoid browning.
Preheat the oven to 180° C, or 360° F.
In a big bowl, or in a food processor, beat butter and sugar very well.
Add eggs one by one.
Add milk and vanilla.
Whisk and add shifted flour with baking powder, little by little, until you have a thick batter.
Put a parchment paper into a cake pan (preferably an adjustable one) and place the apple slices.
Rinse them with more lemon juice.
Sprinkle on apples cinnamon and brown sugar.
Pour the batter over apples and bake for about an hour.
Let the cake cool for a while and place it upside down on a platter.
In a small saucepan put 2 cups brown sugar and 1/2 cup water over medium heat.
When sugar starts to boil and makes bubbles remove from the heat and add 1 cup water.
Return the saucepan to the heat and boil until the syrup become deep golden brown and thick.

enjoy  with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream