Upside Down Chocolate Cake

 Ingredients 

• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar; packed
• 1 can apricot halves, drained
• 8 to 10 maraschino cherries,halved
• 1/3 cup butter
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1/4 cup cocoa
• dash of cinnamon
• 2 eggs
• 1 3/4 cup cake flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Method

Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a heavy frying pan or 9 inch square pan. Add brown sugar, then arrange the apricot halves all over the bottom of the pan on the brown sugar, placing cherry halves between. Set aside while preparing cake. Cream the 1/3 cup butter, white sugar, cocoa and cinnamon; add eggs, beaten very little, and whip the mixture vigorously. The add the flour and baking soda, sifted together, alternately with the milk. Add vanilla and pour batter into the pan over the fruit. Bake in a 350°F oven 35 to 40 minutes. Serve warm.

Submitted by E. Tesky