Iron Skillet Pineapple Upside-down Cake. Arrange pineapple slices on top brown sugar/butter. Place cherries in center of slices. Beat remaining ingredients till well blended.

Sprinkle brown sugar evenly over butter. Cut remaining slices in half; arrange around inside edge of skillet. Skillet cakes — featuring fruit and sugar in the bottom of a cast iron skilled, topped with cake batter and cooked atop the stove — were common in both Europe and America for centuries. You can have Iron Skillet Pineapple Upside-down Cake using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Iron Skillet Pineapple Upside-down Cake

You need 1 box of Duncan Hines Pineapple Supreme cake mix (with some minor ingredient changes).
You need 1/3 cup of vegetable oil.
It's 3 large of egg yolks (reserve egg whites in medium bowl).
It's 20 oz of can crushed pineapple drained (reserve juice).
It's 1 cup of reserved pineapple juice (in place of water as listed on box).
You need 1 stick of of butter.
You need 1 cup of packed brown sugar.

Sprinkle pecans over pineapple; set aside. In a large bowl, beat egg yolks until thick and lemon-colored. Blend in vanilla and reserved pineapple juice. The cast iron distributed heat evenly, allowing butter and sugar in the bottom of the skillet to caramelize underneath a cake batter.

Iron Skillet Pineapple Upside-down Cake instructions

Preheat oven to 325°.
In a 10" iron skillet, melt butter. Add brown sugar and cook until bubbly..
Add pineapple to sugar mixture and continue cooking for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside..
In large bowl, add cake mix, reserved pineapple juice, oil and egg yolks. Mix well..
In medium bowl, beat egg whites on high speed until stiff and thick like whipped cream. Gently fold beaten egg whites into cake batter until mixed well..
Pour batter over pineapple mixture and bake at 325° for 25-30 minutes or until cake is golden brown and toothpick inserted comes out clean..
Let cake stand 5 minutes. Loosen edges with knife, place cake plate on top of cake, hold your breath and flip it upside-down. Enjoy!.

Pineapple upside-down cake premiered not long after inventor James Dole started putting out perfectly cut pineapple rings, after making the machine that produced perfect cuts. Lay pineapple rings in overlapping circles to cover surface of skillet. This recipe for the best pineapple upside down cake can be made in a regular cake pan, or like I did here, in a cast iron skillet. It was a total success and the caramel crusty topping that develops from the brown sugar and butter was considerably better than the crust that. Melt the butter over medium high heat in the iron skillet.