Friday, April 30, 2010

Pineapple Upside-down Cake

1/4 C Butter or margarine
2/3 C Packed Brown Sugar
9 Slices pineappple in juice from can drained
9 Marachino cherries without stems, if desired
1 1/3 c all purpose flour
1 c granulated sugar
1/3 c shortening
1 1/2 t baking powder
1/2 t salt
3/4 c milk
1 egg

Heat oven to 350 F. In 9-inch square pan, melt butter in oven. Sprinkle brown sugar evenly over melted butter. Arrange pineapple slices over brown sugar. Place cherry in center of each pineapple slice.

In medium bowl, beat remaining ingredients with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on high speed 3 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Pour batter over pineapple and cherries.

Bake 50-55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Immediately place heatproof serving plate upside down over pan, turn plate and pan over. Leave pan over cake a few minutes so brown sugar mixture can drizzel over cake, remove pan. Serve warm.


The only think I got confused about with this recipe was the brown sugar..I guessed since it said packed that was going in the cake and the brown sugar you sprinkled on top was separate.. :)

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