Apple and Cranberry Upside-Down Cake Recipe | Saveur

Ingredients

• 1 cup fresh or frozen cranberries, rinsed and picked over
• 1½ cups plus 1 Tbsp. granulated sugar, divided
• 8 tbsp. unsalted butter, 2 Tbsp. cold, 6 Tbsp. softened, plus more for greasing
• 2 firm cooking apples, such as Northern Spy, Baldwin, or Golden Delicious
• 1 cup cake flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• ¼ tsp. fine salt
• ½ cups light brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 tbsp. applejack or Calvados
• ½ cups whole milk
• Vanilla ice cream, for serving (optional)