• Recipe by Dorah Sitole

    These light and fruity upside-down cup cakes are delicious served as dessert or as a tea-time treat with whipped cream or custard

    Baby apple upside-down cakes

    Serves: 12
    Cooking Time: 30 mins

    Ingredients

    • 60ml (¼ cup) golden syrup
    • 3 small green or red apples,
    • thinly sliced
    • 105g (½ cup) castor sugar
    • 3 large eggs
    • 5ml (1 tsp) vanilla extract
    • 140g (1 cup) self-raising flour
    • 5ml (1 tsp) baking powder
    • 125ml (½ cup) butter, melted
    • fresh whipped cream, to serve

    Instructions

    1

    Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease a 12-hole muffin tin.

    2

    Place 10ml (2 tsp) golden syrup in the holes of the muffin tin. Place a slice of apple on top of the syrup.

    3

    Beat together the castor sugar, eggs and vanilla extract until thick and pale.

    4

    Sift together the flour and baking powder, fold into the sugar mixture with the melted butter and mix well.

    5

    Spoon the mixture over the apple slices and bake in the oven until golden, about 20 minutes.

    6

    Cool for 5 minutes in the tin before turning out. Serve with whipped cream.