Orange Upside Down Cake

When life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade! What happens when life keeps throwing oranges at you? I turned it upside down and made a cake.;-) I had to rush and find a way out to de-stress myself. 

So here are the tips to de-stress when you have a handful of oranges. :-)

1. Take out oranges.
2. Start by cutting off both ends, and then cut off the entire skin of the orange. Trim the white parts.
3. Now, take the orange and remove every part by cutting between the slices.
4. You will now see a thin white skin between each slice. Cut into the flesh, remove the skinless orange wedge one-by-one. Woohoo! You are done. Do you feel better now? :-P I did!

Ta-da! Now you are stress-free and have quite a good amount of Orange Supremes, which go as the base for this cake.
Now let's move on to the interesting task of turning those oranges upside down...

Ingredients

• Oranges - 5  medium or 4 large
• Castor Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Brown Sugar - 4 teaspoons
• All purpose flour - 1 cup
• Milk - 3 tablespoons
• Eggs - 2
• Butter - 2 2/4 tablespoons, melted
• Baking powder - 2 teaspoons

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 410 degrees Fahrenheit (210 degrees Celsius).
2. Grease a cake tin with enough butter, sprinkle with brown sugar, and arrange the orange supremes to cover the base of the cake tin completely.
3. Whisk together eggs and sugar. 
4. Add flour, baking powder, butter, milk and mix well.
5. Pour this mixture over the orange supremes and bake for 40-45 minutes.
6. Remove it from the oven and let it cool. Un-mould it on a flat plate. It didn' cause any hassle when I turned it upside down. It should come out fabulously well for you too. ;-)

This is one of the charming and easiest cakes I have ever baked. The color is that of a bright Sun, the glaze and the flavor of this cake makes you feel accomplished. It tastes the best with warm vanilla cream sauce. The already-drooling-me didn' have the patience to wait for any cream sauce, I sat down and gobbled a piece. I had this Brown & Polson Vanilla Custard mix handy, I made custard sauce for the next piece. The warm vanilla custard sauce drizzled lightly over the cake puts this into other-worldly spheres. Oh my yummy, that one was deeeeelicious...If served warm, it is like the most comforting perfect dessert ever.

Life is beautiful even if it gives lemons and oranges at times... ;-)