Chocolate Upside Down Apricot Cake

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Title: Chocolate Upside Down Apricot Cake
Categories: Cakes, Chocolate
Yield: 1 servings

2 tb Butter
1/3 c Butter
1/2 c Light brown sugar; packed
16 oz Canned apricot halves;
-drained
10 Maraschino cherries; halved
3/4 c Sugar
1/4 c Hersheys cocoa
1 ds Cinnamon
2 lg Eggs
1 3/4 c Cake flour
1 ts Baking soda
3/4 c Milk
1/2 ts Vanilla

Heat oven to 350 degrees. In 9" square baking pan, melt 2
tbsp butter in oven. Remove from oven. Stir in brown
sugar. Arrange apricot halves rounded side down, and
cherries in the pan. Set aside.
In small mixer bowl, beat 1/3 sup butter and granulated
sugar until light and fluffy. Add cocoa and cinnamon, beat
until well blended. Stir in vanilla. Pour batter into pan
over fruit. Bake 45 to 50 minutes or until wooden pick
inserted in center comes out clean. With metal spatula,
loosen sides; invert cake onto serving plate. Serve warm.

NOTE: Now, I didn't want a square cake so I baked this in a
9-cup Bundt pan, well sprayed with Baker's Joy. It took a
little less than 40 minutes, and was very full - could have
used a 12 cup pan, I think. With the apricot halves
arranged in the large depressions, and slices in the small
ones, and cherries here and there it's very beautiful, most
unusual and tastes wonderful. From the 1934 Hersheys'
Cookbook: JOANN MILLER (TXRM93A)

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