Brown Sugar Soy Sauce Skillet Cake

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Rinse, dry, and finely zest the peel of 1 orange; draw zest apart for batter. Slash orange horizontally in 1/6 – 1/4 high-tail thick rings. Stare over the slices for any wayward seeds, picking them out with a paring knife as obligatory. (If orange slices don’t slot in pan as total circles, basically be at liberty to decrease edges as obligatory. If one orange is no longer ample to hide the backside of the pan with slices, you seemingly can moreover simply must repeat the zesting and reducing course of with a 2nd orange, but please handiest utilize the quantity of zest in the batter from the first one.)
2. In a 10? ovenproof skillet, melt 1/4 cup butter with 1/2 cup brown sugar, whisking over low/medium warmth. When butter has melted and sugar begins wanting much less grainy, let bubble whereas whisking for one other 30 seconds or so. Rob a long way from warmth, trudge in 2 teaspoons soy sauce, and high-tail except even. Gently lay the orange slices in one layer on the butter mixture, prettiest sides down. Establish of residing pan apart.
3. In a separate container, melt the supreme 1/3 cup butter; draw apart. In a wide bowl, beat the supreme 1.25 cup brown sugar with the eggs. Beat in the melted butter except snug, gradually at the side of each and every vanillas. Sift the flour, baking soda and powder over the egg mixture. Delivery to combine (batter will appear dry), gradually at the side of the milk, water and 3 tablespoons soy sauce as you dash. Predicament bowl most steadily with spatula as you combine nicely. Fold in orange zest except evenly dispersed. Gently pour batter onto the orange slices in skillet.
4. Space pan in center of oven and bake for approximately 35 minutes, except center no longer jiggles when shaken and a wood skewer or toothpick inserted in the heart comes out batter-free; a few moist crumbs are good-wanting. (Delivery checking at the 25 minute mark, since each and every skillet is diversified.) Fastidiously rob away cake from oven (kind out will be sizzling). Let frigid in pan for Half-hour to an hour, except pan is still rather warm but frigid ample to address. Loosen sides of cake with a butter knife and gently invert cake onto a wide plate. Help warm, reducing into pieces with a keen knife straight via the orange slices.
5. For prime class texture, this cake is easiest eaten quickly after baking; but in the occasion you will need to wait longer than illustrious above, leave it in the skillet except able to motivate (as a lot as overnight). After it’s completely cooled, hide loosely with foil. When able to motivate, rob away foil, assign of residing skillet over low-medium warmth for approximately a minute to relieve loosen the oranges, then loosen sides with a butter knife and invert. For gooey deliciousness, warm the slices and motivate with vanilla ice cream.