What’s Cookin’?: Blackberry Lemon Upside Down Cake [Recipe]

Oh, Dear Lord!  Just when you thought our What's Cookin'? segment couldn't get anymore delicious!  Well, it just did.  Check our Mary Higginbotham's Kentucky Proud recipe for Blackberry Lemon Upside Down Cake.  It is HEAVENLY!

BLACKBERRY LEMON UPSIDE DOWN CAKE

2 teaspoons melted butter
1/3 cup brown sugar
1½ teaspoons grated lemon peel
2 cups fresh blackberries
1¼ cup all-purpose flour
1½ teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt2/3 cup sugar
2 tablespoons butter
1 large egg
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon lemon juice
½ cup skim milk

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Place melted butter in the bottom of a 9-inch round cake pan. Sprinkle with brown sugar and lemon rind. Top with berries. Set aside.

Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl. Set dry ingredients aside. Beat sugar and butter together in a large bowl with a mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add egg, vanilla, and lemon juice. Mix well.

Add dry ingredients to egg mixture alternately with milk, beginning with milk and ending with flour. Mix after each addition.

Spoon the butter over the blackberries. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Cool cake for 5 minutes on a wire rack. Loosen edges of the cake with a knife and place a plate upside down on top of cake; invert onto plate. Serve warm.

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And thanks to Mary Higginbotham, from the UK Cooperative Extension Office here in Daviess County!  You can catch Mary the 4th Monday of every month on What's Cookin'?