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Tinklee's Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

tinklee
tinklee @cook_3915364
USA

this is an old family favorite of ours, I remember my mom making this in her cast iron frying pan all the time as a kid

Tinklee's Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

this is an old family favorite of ours, I remember my mom making this in her cast iron frying pan all the time as a kid

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Ingredients

10 servings
  1. topping/bottom
  2. 1/3 cupbutter
  3. 2/3 cuppacked dark brown sugar
  4. 1 can8oz-sliced pineapple in juice
  5. 7maraschino cherries- optional
  6. cake batter
  7. 1 1/4 cupall purpose flour
  8. 1 cupsugar
  9. 3/4 cupmilk
  10. 1/3 cupshortening
  11. 1egg
  12. 1 1/2 tspvanilla
  13. 1 1/2 tspbaking powder
  14. 1/2 tspsalt

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    preheat oven go 350ºF

  2. 2

    melt butter in a 9" pan in the oven till melted(this is the cake pan you are baking the cake in)

  3. 3

    when butter is melted, remove from oven. Add brown sugar to melted butter and mix real well(still in pan), once mixed real well, spread out even in bottom of pan

  4. 4

    place 1 pineapple ring in center of pan, take remaining slices and cut in half, arrange halves cut sides facing out around the pineapple placed in the center, so you have them in a complete circle around, place cherries in centers of the pineapples, then set aside

  5. 5

    add all ingredients to your bowl and beat on low speed for 30 seconds, scaping bowl to make sure all is mixed in, then beat on high speed for 3 minutes, scraping the sides of the bowl a few times

  6. 6

    pour into cake pan, on top of the pineapple

  7. 7

    bake for about 45mins or until a wooden pick in the center comes out clean when tested

  8. 8

    when you remove from oven, invert onto a plate and let pan remain for a few minutes, then remove pan,

  9. 9

    may be served warm or cold is great with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream on top

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I love being in the kitchen and My hubby and I love riding bikes! We do a lot of fundraising for the veterans homes in our area and other programs while we ride our bikes, thats part of what our group is all about, I have a couple auto immune diseases that can slow me down quite a bit, I have Lupus and Sclerderma to name some of what I suffer, but I keep going and will not stop I know I just have to, I have been married for 37 wonderful years to a great man, have 2 great boys and adore all my grandkids
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Comments (2)

april.harper.9400
april.harper.9400 @cook_3080431
Thank you for a cake recipe that doesn't involve a boxed cake mix! Delicious!

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