Pineapple Upside down cake. The cake was a modern marvel because it relied on the recently introduced innovation of canned pineapple rings and preserved maraschino cherries. This is a hybrid pineapple upside-down cake which I've developed over the years. Instead of pineapple rings, I use crushed pineapple, coconut, and honey.
Substitute reserved peach juice for the pineapple juice.
Cut the maraschino cherries in half, and place one half, cut-side up, in the center of each pineapple ring.
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You can have Pineapple Upside down cake using 17 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Pineapple Upside down cake
- Prepare 1 of Cooking spray can.
- Prepare 3 of cups of cake flour.
- It's 1 of cup of butter 1/2 cup melted.
- Prepare 2 1/4 of cup of sugar.
- It's 5 of large eggs.
- It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- You need 2 tsp of baking powder.
- You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
- It's 1 1/4 cup of whole butter milk.
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup of firmly packed brown sugar.
- It's 2 oz of (20oz.) Can pineapple slices (2Tlbs.).
- It's 1 oz of (10oz.)Jar of maraschino cherries.
- Prepare 1 can of chopped pecans.
- Prepare 1/2 of Frosting - 1/2 pound butter , softened.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of Pineapple juice.
- It's 3 1/2 cup of confectioners sugar.
- It's 1 of Beat all ingredients in a large bowl until well combined for frosting.
My mother has an easier version where you don't need to beat the egg whites separately. Whisk together whole eggs and sugar until the liquid becomes light yellow and foamy. This means the chemical reaction is almost equivalent to beating the egg whites in the end batter. Upside down, right side up…there's no wrong way to enjoy this Southern-favorite cake.
Pineapple Upside down cake step by step
- Preheat oven 350° , spray 2 (9inch) pans , or round pan with cooking spray & coat with flour in a large bowl, beat 1 cup of butter at medium speed with mixer gradually add sugar, beating until fluffy, add the eggs one at a time ..
- Stir in vanilla then set aside , note make sure dry mix and wet mix are made separate first* In a small bowl add 3 cups of flour baking powder and salt . Stir to combine, add flour mix into the egg mixture alternate with buttermilk , beginning and ending with flour mixture..
- Divide brown sugar evenly into each pan , pour melted butter over the brown sugar into each pan.
- Pour equals amount of batter over the fruit until a toothpick comes up clean. Cook for about 40-45 min, let cool for 10 min.
It gets baked with a base of ooey gooey pineapple slices, which become sticky and sweet during their time in the oven. When it's finished baking, the cake gets inverted in one big flip so that the pineapple rounds end up topping the cake and displayed upside down—or right side up, depending on your. Pineapple Upside Down Cake from Scratch. This pineapple upside down cake is dense, like a sour cream pound cake, with ground almonds in the flour to give it even more substance and a slight almond flavor. The caramel pineapple topping is so good, you'll want to pick every crumb.