Apple butter is essentially caramelized apple sauce — a fruit purée that slow-cooks with water or cider until the apple’s natural sugars turn a dark, toasty brown. The mixture is augmented with baking ...

Upside-down desserts are culinary genius. When fruit cooks on the bottom of the pan instead of on the top, it steams and often caramelizes, giving it a deep, concentrated sweetness and melding its ...