Skott is an amazing cook! I really got lucky. His latest is this awesome recipe he found in Coastal Living magazine. He made it for Thanksgiving dinner and it was AMAZING! We try to limit our sugar intake so we are always on the lookout for dessert recipes that don't contain a ton of sugar. Anyone needing a new idea:
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Plum Upside-Down Pudding Cake
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 25 minutes
Cool time: 30 minutes
4 small red or black plums, sliced
1/2 cup sugar (we used splenda)
1 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice (we used vanilla extract + what's below)
3/4 tsp. salt
2 large eggs
3/4 cup whole or low-fat buttermilk
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
4 Tbsp. unsalted butter, melted
3/4 cup flour (we used whole wheat pastry flour)
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
whipping cream
1. Combine plums, 1 Tbsp sugar, lemon juice (vanilla), and 1/4 tsp salt in a bowl, tossing gently.
2. Grease sides and bottom of a 9-inch cast-iron skillet or deep dish pie pan (we used glass pyrex pie pan). Cover bottom with plum slices, overlapping slightly.
3. Whisk together eggs, remaining sugar, buttermilk, vanilla, and butter until well blended.
4. Combine flour, baking powder, and remaining salt; whisk into egg mixture. Pour batter over fruit. Bake at 375 for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown (the longer you cook, the more cake-like it becomes instead of pudding/cakey).
Cool in pan 30 minutes.
5. Run tip of knife around edges of cake to loosen. Invert onto a platter and serve with sweetened whipped cream.
Skott has also made this with apple slices and pecans. It is a nice touch if there is extra fruit, to slice and lay on top after you have flipped the cake onto a platter.
He is going to try various fruit combinations in the future.
We found we liked it better without the whipped cream (but we are weird like that, we don't like sweet things)
P.S. all mentioning of "we" above actually means "He" (Skott) hahaha!
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And one last tip:
Don't forget to shut the beaters off before you plug them back in after walking across the kitchen to have your wife sample the whipping cream! :) if I could have captured the entire kitchen, you would have seen the whipped cream across the entire thing and up onto the cabinets!
Our furry "kidz" licking the beaters
