Calamansi upside down cake.

I made up this recipe so that we can use up extra  calamansi grown by my aunt ( mami in marathi), Sushama Patwardhan who is an excellent cook and enthusiastic about all her pursuits .

Ingredients

3 eggs

125 g sugar

½ tsp vanilla essence

150 g  plain flour +

10 g baking powder

Sieve well together to combine all

Or a mix of flour/ almond powder / cornflour ( 150 g total)

and baking powder ( 10 g)

75 g butter+

75 g oil (melt the two gently)

Slice calamansi 2-3 to lay at base of the cake.

Juice and grated rind of 1-2 calamansi .

For the caramelized calamanai at the base

Sugar 40 g

Butter-20 g

Preheat oven to 180 C first

Make your cake tin and line with baking paper next.

Melt butter and oil

Sieve or mix flour and

baking powder mix well together

Put slices of calamansi on bottom on cake tin( 8 inch).

Make caramel add butter to it and a teaspoon of water . Pour over the slice of calamansi.

Whisk eggs till really thick and fluffy . Add in rind and juice of calamansi and vanilla. Gently add in the melted butter and oil mix.

Gently fold in flour and bp mix.

Pour mixture in cake tin making sure it’s evenly spread.

Bake at 180c for 20-25 mins.

Test with a toothpick or thin knife. If it

comes out clean its done.