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Linda in MO
06-30-2003, 09:34 AM
My dad brought me a quart of blackberries this weekend, so I made this yesterday. It's really good! I think it would also be wonderful with blueberries--maybe even better than the blackberries. It's an old CL recipe, but I'm not sure what issue. Makes a nice dessert or coffee cake. I used unsalted butter and doubled the vanilla.

* Exported from MasterCook *

Blackberry-Lemon Upside-Down Cake

Recipe By : CL
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Cake or Pie, Low-Fat

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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2 teaspoons butter or stick margarine -- melted
1/3 Cup packed brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
2 cups fresh blackberries
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons butter or stick margarine -- softened
1 large egg
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup fat-free milk

Preheat oven to 350°

Place 2 teaspoons melted butter in the bottom of a 9-inch round cake pan; sprinkle with brown sugar and lemon rind. Top with blackberries; set aside.

Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl.

Beat granulated sugar and 2 tablespoons butter in a large bowl at meduim speed of a mixer until well-blended. Add the egg and vanilla; beat well. Add flour mixture to egg amixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture; mix after each addition. Spoon batter over blackberries.

Bake at 350° for 40 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 5 minutes on a wire rack. Loosen edges of cake with a serated knife. Place a plate upside down on top of cake pan; invert onto plate.

Yield: 8 servings

Calories 239 (18% from fat)
Fat 4.8g
Protein 3.7g
Carb 46.2g
Fiber 2.4g


NOTES : I think blueberries would also work great.

sweetpea
06-30-2003, 11:26 AM
Oohhh! Now i have to decide between using my blueberries for this or the blueberry brunch cake--Linda (or anyone!)if you have tried both--do you have a vote for which one is better? Thanks!

Linda in MO
07-01-2003, 10:13 AM
sweetpea, sorry I haven't tried the other recipe, but I bet you can't go wrong with either one. I'm picky with how I use my fresh berries though. I don't like to "waste" them in recipes where I could have used frozen berries. Does that make sense?

sweetpea
07-01-2003, 11:38 AM
oh yes, that makes sense! Blueberries happened to be on sale this week here --so maybe i will splurge and buy some more and make both!! Thank you for your input! DH is getting spoiled rotten this week --it is his birthday on the 3rd though, so it's okay by me! :D

JulieAnn
07-01-2003, 02:45 PM
Thanks Linda for reminding me to post on this! I made this once last year, but royally messed it up! I had too much water in the pan and tried to lean it sideways to let some of it drain out. In the process I dumped water into the pudding mixture. I never reviewed because I didn't think my review would be very fair to the recipe:D .
We tried it again last week and LOVED it. The only problem is that it's so light and summery I ate about half of it myself.:eek:

semmens
08-20-2003, 06:16 AM
This was pretty tasty; in fact dh kept saying how good it was!

I will say that even with using a nonstick cake pan and more like a tablespoon of melted butter, the berries still ended up sticking to the pan (tho they were easy enough to scrape off). I used whole milk.

Laura