Upside-Down Toffee Apple Cake for Melbourne Cake Club - "Autumn Apples"

On Thursday night, the Melbourne Cake Club met at Pause Bar in Balaclava for its April meeting.  Our theme for this month was Autumn Apples.

Here's a look at the cosy interior of Pause Bar:

I arrived during Happy Hour so was able to take advantage of Pause Bar's great happy hour rates on wine. 

In all, seven members attended April's meeting, with a diverse range of apple cakes.

First up was Abi's apple cider cake, decorated beautifully with toffee apples and grape leaves:

 

I got to take one of these gorgeous apples home and really enjoyed eating it for morning tea the next day.

Dalya made a lovely Apple Caramel Charlotte, with the recipe from Rose's Heavenly Cakes book:

 
The outside was light cake and the inside was a beautiful light custard, with an apple "rose" on top.

Alex made a gluten free "healthy" apple cake from one of the newspaper weekend magazines:

Lindsay, attending her second meeting, presented us with an apple loaf topped with walnuts and luscious caramel from the BBC Good Food website:

 
Sue baked a deliciously moist, gluten free chocolate apple cake from a book exclusively on apple cakes:

 
Nicole made a picture-perfect apple spice cake with caramel sauce that she found on Pinterest:

And I made an Upside-Down Toffee Apple Cake from Luis Troyano's Bake It Great, with a gorgeous spiced gooey toffee on top:

 
Here is my plate of cake from the meeting - it was all so good that I nearly ate all of it: 

And in case you were wondering what my cake looked like inside, here is a glimpse:

 

 It was another fabulous meeting of the Melbourne Cake Club.  Next month's theme is unbaked cakes.

Pause Bar

268 Carlisle St

Balaclava VIC 3183

Phone: (03) 9537 0511