GINGER AND APPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE

Preheat your oven to 180 deg C . Lightly grease and line a 20 cm round cake pan with baking paper . Sprinkle the lined pan with soft brown sugar . Arrange 2 peeled and thinly sliced apples over the base of the cake pan . In a separate bowl , mix together 4 cups of plain flour with 1 tbs of ground ginger and using your fingers rub in 225 gm of room temp butter/ marg until the mix looks like fine breadcrumbs . Now add 2 cups of castor sugar , 4 tbs of golden syrup and 1 dsp of bicarbonate of soda mixed in 1 and 1/2 cups of milk . Mix the batter until all ingredients are well combined . Finally add 2 tbs of lemon juice . Pour the batter over the apple slices on the base of the pan . Bake for 65 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean . Turn the cake onto a serving plate with the apples as the topping , carefully removing the baking paper .