Preheat your oven to 325ºF. Sprinkle apple slices lightly with lemon juice. Place butter in 9 inch round cake pan. Place in oven until butter melts, remove from oven. Sprinkle brown sugar over butter. Overlap apple slices in pan, working from center to outside until bottom of pan is covered. Place the egg in medium bowl, beat well. Gradually add sugar, beat until well mixed. Combine the cream and vanilla in separate bowl. Sift flour with baking powder into another bowl. Alternately add cream and flour mixture to egg mixture, beat well after each addition. Pour batter over apples. Bake cake for 35 minutes. Cool in pan o wire rack for 10 minutes, then turn out onto rack and cool completely. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar
Serves 8

Upside Down Apple Cake 2

3 Granny Smith or other tart cooking apples
3 tablespoons of  lemon juice
1 tablespoon of pumpkin pie spice
1/4 cup of butter
One 16 ounce package of golden pound cake mix
2 eggs, for use in cake mix
2 teaspoons of grated orange peel (optional)

Core apples, cut into slices. Toss with lemon juice and spice. Melt butter in a 10 inch cast iron or oven proof skillet. Remove from heat. Stir in brown sugar. Arrange apple slices in skillet in circular pattern. Pour in any juice remaining in bowl. Mix cake mix according to package directions, using the 2 eggs; add peel if desired. Pour batter over apples. Bake at 350ºF. for 40 to 45 minutes. Cool completely in pan before turning onto platter. Serve with vanilla ice cream. 

Upside Down Apple Cake 3

1 large Golden Delicious apple (about 1/2 lb.)
3 tablespoons of brown sugar
Vegetable cooking spray
1/4 cup of sugar
1/4 cup of vegetable oil
1 egg
1/2 cup of dark molasses, dark Karo syrup can be substituted
1 1/3 cup of all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon of ground ginger
3/4 teaspoon of baking soda
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon of ground cloves
1/2 cup of hot water

Peel, core and slice apple crosswise into 7 (1/4 inch) rings. Combine apple rings and brown sugar in a bowl; toss gently. Let stand 5 minutes. Arrange apple mixture in a single layer in a 10 inch cast-iron skillet coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350ºF. for 15 minutes. Combine 1/4 cup sugar, oil and egg in a large bowl; beat 2 minutes at medium speed of an electric mixer. Add molasses; beat an additional 2 minutes. Combine flour and next 5 ingredients. With mixer running at low speed, add to sugar mixture alternately with hot water, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Spoon batter over apple rings. Bake at 350ºF. for 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in skillet 10 minutes; invert onto a serving plate. Yield: 8 servings (serving size 1 piece). 

Upside Down Apple Cake 4

1 package of yellow cake mix
3 apples, peeled and sliced thin
2 tablespoons of cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg
1/2 cube butter
1 cup of chopped pecans
3/4 cup of brown sugar
3 tablespoons of Red Hots candies

Pour melted butter in rectangle baking dish. Toss apples with cinnamon and nutmeg, coating evenly. Spread red hots evenly over butter in pan. Sprinkle nuts, then apples, then all of the brown sugar over apples. Prepare cake batter as per package instructions. Gently, pour batter over apple mixture. Bake in preheated oven at 350ºF. for 30 to 45 minutes or until done when tested. Remove from oven, set for 5 minutes only, then invert on serving plate, carefully.