Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, upside down date cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Upside Down Date Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Upside Down Date Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook upside down date cake using 15 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Upside Down Date Cake:

1. Make ready Syrup
2. Make ready 20-25 dates
3. Make ready 4.5 tbsp Unsalted butter (room temperature)
4. Prepare 120 g light brown sugar
5. Take 1 tbsp Honey
6. Get Juice of half a lemon
7. Make ready Cake base
8. Get 215 g Self raising flour
9. Take 3 Eggs
10. Make ready 2.5 tsp Baking powder
11. Prepare 2 tsp Cinnamon
12. Take Pinch salt
13. Prepare 325 g Caster sugar
14. Prepare 2/3 tsp Vanilla extract
15. Make ready 160 ml Whole milk

Instructions to make Upside Down Date Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 175 degrees
2. Make the syrup by bringing together butter, light brown sugar, honey and lemon juice to a simmer on the hob. Once simmering, reduce the heat and leave for a minute.
3. Add the syrup to the cake tin. Aim to use a tin with an attached base.
4. Cut the dates in half lengthways and remove the stone.
5. Place the dates skin side touching the syrup in concentric circles. Keep them tightly packed side by side.
6. Start making the cake mixture by adding together all the dry ingredients apart from the caster sugar in a mixing bowl.
7. In a separate mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar until light and creamy. Add the vanilla extract.
8. Add three quarters of the milk to the eggs and sugar mixture. Mix well.
9. Add the dry ingredients mixture in three batches to the eggs and sugar mixture. Mix well after each addition. Aim for a mixture which slowly falls off the spoon. If the mixture is too thick, add the remaining milk.
10. Add cake mixture on top of the dates and syrup.
11. Bake for 60 - 70 mins in the preheated oven (175 degrees Celsius). A skewer inserted into the middle should come out clean.
12. Leave to cool for 2 - 3 mins then turn upside down on a wire rack then serve on a plate.

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