Apple Upside Down Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup butter, divided
1 cup brown sugar, packed
3 cups apples, peeled, cored and sliced
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup pecans, chopped
18 1/2 ounces butter recipe cake mix
3 eggs
2/3 cup water

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350\u00b0. Grease sides of 13x9 baking pan.
Melt 1 stick butter; pour into baking pan. Stir in brown sugar and mix well; spread evenly in bottom of baking pan.
Arrange apples evenly over sugar; sprinkle with cinnamon and pecans.
In large mixing bowl, combine cake mix, 1 stick butter (softened), eggs and water. Beat with electric mixer for 2 minutes.
Pour cake batter evenly over apples.
Bake about 45 minutes until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool for 5 minutes; invert onto serving platter.