Warm Caramel Apple Cake Recipe

A piece of caramel pecan upside-down cake sits on a white plate with a fork. The cake has caramel topping and visible pecans. A glass baking dish with more cake is in the background on a marble surface. Scattered pecans are around the dish.

Warm Caramel Apple Cake Recipe

This Warm Caramel Apple Cake Recipe tastes like fall! Perfect for potlucks!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Method Oven

Main Ingredient Fruit, Grains

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 40

Additional Time 5

Total Time 10

Servings

Calories 321kcal

Author Kelli Miller

Equipment

Ingredients

½ Cup(s) of butter
¼ Cup(s) heavy cream
1 Cup(s) packed brown sugar
⅔ Cup(s) of chopped pecans
2 large apples 1 Granny Smith and 1 Red Delicious or Gala peeled and thinly sliced
1 box of yellow cake mix
1 ¼ Cup(s) of water
⅓ Cup(s) vegetable oil
3 eggs
¼ tsp of cinnamon
¼ tsp of nutmeg
dash of cloves
Caramel dessert topping

Instructions

Heat oven to 350 degrees.
In a saucepan, cook butter, heavy cream, and brown sugar over low heat, stirring occasionally until butter melts.
Pour mixture into a 13x9 inch cake pan.
Sprinkle with pecans and cover with apple slices.
In a large bowl, beat cake mix, water, oil, eggs, and spices with an electric mixer. Beat for 3 minutes.
Carefully spoon batter over the apples.
Bake for 40 minutes or until the toothpick comes out clean. Cool pan for 5 minutes.
Place a platter on the cake pan and carefully flip the pan over.
Let cake cool for 5 minutes and drizzle with caramel topping.

Notes

If you don’t want to put your cake on a platter, I wanted to keep mine in my cake pan to transport it to my potluck dinner easier. Just put wax paper on the platter before you flip the cake. After you flip the cake onto the wax paper-covered platter, carefully slide the wax paper and cake back into your cake pan. Then you can drizzle with caramel topping.

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