Caramelized upside-down Apple and Almond Cakes

Name: Caramelized upside-down Apple and Almond Cakes
Yield: Yield: 16 servings, 3¼ inches in diameter x 1½ inches high (8.1 x 3.7 cm)
Ingredients: 3 pounds 8 ounces (1 kg 590 g) Golden Delicious or small Granny Smith apples (approximately 8 apples); Vanilla Bean-Almond Filling; 16 vanilla bean pod halves (split lengthwise); Lemon Verbena Ice Cream; ½ recipe Fortified Caramel Sauce; 12 ounces (340 g) dark brown sugar; 8 ounces (225 g) unsalted butter, at room temperature, plus 2 to 3 tablespoons to grease the forms

Preparation info

Yield:
16
servings, 3¼ inches in diameter x 1½ inches high

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Professional Pastry Chef

By Bo Friberg

Published 1989

About

This simple and foolproof combination of almond cake and caramelized apples can be made, start to finish, in about 2 hours You can substitute frangipane filling for the vanilla bean–almond filling, should you have some frangipane left over. You will need ½ recipe or 2 pounds 5 ounces (

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Vegetarian

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