Pineapple upside down cake
Pineapple upside down cake recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1/3 cup butter
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Pineapple, sliced, canned
- Maraschino cherries
- Pecan halves
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Cake batter:
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 6 tablespoons pineapple juice from fruit
- 1 cup sifted Gold Medal flour or Softasilk
- 1/3 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Recipe method:
- Melt butter in heavy cast iron skillet or baking dish.
- Sprinkle brown sugar evenly over butter.
- Arrange drained slices of pineapple over butter-sugar coating.
- Garnish well with maraschino cherries and pecan halves in the spaces.
- Cake Batter: Beat eggs until thick and lemon colored, 5 minutes. Gradually beat in sugar. Add pineapple juice and vanilla extract.
- Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt and beat into mixture all at once.
- Pour batter over fruit and nuts.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes or until wooden pick thrust into center of cake comes out clean.
- Immediately turn upside-down on serving plate. Do not remove pan for a few minutes.
- Brown sugar mixture will run down over cake instead of clinging to pan.
- Serve warm, plain, or with whipped cream.
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