Satsuma Mandarin and Vanilla Upside-Down Cake
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Martha Stewart Living, January
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Ingredients
- 4 to 5 medium Satsuma mandarins (1 1/2 pounds), thinly sliced and seeded
- 8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 vanilla bean, split and scraped, pod reserved for another use
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3 tablespoons freshly squeezed Satsuma mandarin juice (from 1 mandarin)
- 1 1/3 cups plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 tablespoon finely grated mandarin zest
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 1/2 cup whole milk
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cook mandarins in a large pot of boiling water for 3 minutes. Drain. Arrange slices in a single layer on paper towels.
- Place 1 stick of butter in a 9-by-2-inch round cake pan. Mix half the vanilla seeds and 1/2 cup sugar, then sprinkle over butter. Place in oven until butter melts, about 7 minutes. Carefully whisk in 2 tablespoons mandarin juice.
- Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Cream zest and remaining 1 stick butter, 1 cup sugar, and vanilla seeds with a mixer until light and fluffy. With mixer running, add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Reduce speed to low. Add half the flour mixture, then the milk and remaining 1 tablespoon juice. Beat in remaining flour mixture.
- Arrange mandarin slices in a circle over sugar in pan, starting in the center and spiraling outward, overlapping slices slightly. (Use slices that are completely intact.) Gently spoon batter on top of mandarins, and spread evenly. Bake cake until golden brown and a tester inserted in center comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes. Let cool in pan on wire rack. Run a knife around edge of pan to loosen cake. Invert onto a serving plate, and let cool before serving.
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Did anyone else have trouble with getting nice even slices from the Satsumas? The segments inside were not in any way uniform. Bummer.
Is it just me or was there way too much butter? I ended up pouring off 1/4 of the melted butter after I saw how much was in the pan. Next time I will half the melted butter to see how it turns out. Other than that I loved the flavor and really enjoyed the bitter, sour, sweet combination.
"Arrange mandarin slices in a circle over sugar in pan, starting in the center and spiraling outward, overlapping slices slightly."
The butter-sugar mixture that you've baked in the oven stays in the pan, you then layer the mandarin slices on top of the sugar-mixture."
what about the melted butter with sugar mixture which we did in the oven? this seems to have slipped out of the recipe...