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Upside Down Butterscotch Cake

Here's how you make Upside Down Butterscotch Cake
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  • Servings: 12
  • Prep: 20m
  • Cook: 30m
    • The following recipe serves 12 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • Topping
  • 1/3 cup butter, melted
  • 1 cup graham cracker crumbs
  • 1 cup butterscotch chips
  • 1/2 cup flaked coconut
  • 1/2 cup chopped pecans, toasted
  • Cake
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 cup milk
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat oven to 350F.

  • Step 2: Topping: Combine the melted butter, graham cracker crumbs, butterscotch chips, coconut, and pecans.

  • Step 3: Spread over bottom of a buttered Pam sprayed 13x9-inch baking pan.

  • Step 4: Cake: Cream shortening with granulated sugar until light.

  • Step 5: Add vanilla and mix well.

  • Step 6: Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

  • Step 7: Into another bowl, sift together the flour, salt, and baking powder.

  • Step 8: Add sifted ingredients to the creamed mixture, alternating with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour.

  • Step 9: Beat well after each addition.

  • Step 10: Beat for about 1 minute longer then pour over the topping.

  • Step 11: Bake for 30 minutes, or until the cake bounces back when touched lightly with finger.

  • Step 12: Cool for 5 minutes in the pan.

  • Step 13: Invert carefully onto serving plate, spooning any topping left in the pan over the cake; cut into squares.

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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