Blueberry Upside-Down Cake

This cake brings rave reviews as well as is a prissy modify from the predictable pineapple upside-down cake. The cake is sweet, really lite as well as tender as well as the berries keep it deliciously moist. We ate it warm, alongside H2O ice cream later dinner this evening as well as our neighbor took habitation several pieces (guarding the dish on his lap every bit he left on his tractor...ha ha ha).

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 thence spray it again.

BOILED SYRUP TOPPING
1 loving cup white sugar
¼ teaspoon lemon juice
¼ loving cup mutual frigidity water

three cups blueberries (thaw as well as drain if frozen)

Arrange the blueberries inwards the bottom of the parchment lined cake pan, ready aside. In a heavy bottomed ii quart sauce pan, stir the sugar, lemon juice as well as mutual frigidity H2O together. Bring to a boil over medium high oestrus (occasionally brush the walls of the pan alongside a moisture pastry brush to launder downward whatsoever saccharide crystals). Boil on medium heat, stirring ane time inwards a while, until it starts to plough amber. Watch carefully, because ane time it starts to plough color, because it volition darken quickly. Pour evenly over the blueberries as well as ready aside.

CAKE
1½ cups all utilization flour
1¾ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon soil ginger
½ teaspoon soil cinnamon
½ loving cup whole milk
ii teaspoons vanilla extract
½ loving cup butter (room temperature)
1 loving cup packed brownish sugar
ii large eggs
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In a pocket-size bowl, mix flour, baking powder, ginger as well as cinnamon together, ready aside. In some other pocket-size bowl, mix milk as well as vanilla extract, ready aside.
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With electrical mixer, musical rhythm out the room temperature butter for ane minute, or until it is lite as well as fluffy; add together brownish saccharide as well as musical rhythm out on high for three minutes. Reduce speed as well as add together eggs, ane at a time, beating good later each. Make certain y'all scrape downward the sides of the bowl ane time inwards a while.
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Now y'all ask to mix inwards the milk mixture as well as the flour mixture, only brand certain y'all alternate (dry...milk...dry...milk etc.). Scrape downward the bowl as well as hand it ane in conclusion mix only don't mix likewise long. Pour the batter over the blueberries.

Bake at 350F for 35 to 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted inwards middle of cake comes out build clean (it takes 45 minutes inwards my oven). Remove from oven as well as permit the cake cool inwards the pan for xv minutes. Run a sparse knife around the border to loosen, thence invert on a serving plate as well as pare off the parchment paper. Cool, this is fantabulous alongside H2O ice cream.

NOTE: Do non brand this inwards a springform pan because the sauce mightiness leak out.

NOTE: The berries look quite moisture when y'all start invert the cake, only every bit it cools off, the sauce thickens considerably.

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