Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

By LacyBluButterfly

This batter seemed very dry when I was making it so I put the reserved pineapple juice in until it was the right consistency. I also added a little bit (Sorry, I didn’t measure it) into the butter & brown sugar mixture. It came out great!! So good that someone couldn’t wait until after I took the picture to take a piece. LOL

Ingredients

• 1/4 c Butter or Margarine, melted
• 2/3 c Brown Sugar
• 1 14oz can Pineapple Slices in juice, drained, reserve juice
• 1/4 c Light Rum, Optional
• Maraschino cherries without stems
• 1 1/3 c All Purpose or Cake Flour
• 1 c Sugar
• 1/3 c Shortening
• 1 1/2 t Baking Powder
• 1/2 t Salt
• 3/4 c Milk
• 1 Egg

Preparation

Step 1

- Heat oven to 350°F. Pour melted butter into a 9×13 pan. Sprinkle brown sugar evenly over melted butter. Add a little pineapple juice and the rum and lightly stir. Arrange pineapple slices over brown sugar. Place cherry in center of each pineapple slice.

- In medium bowl, stir remaining ingredients, scraping bowl constantly. Pour batter over pineapple and cherries.

- Bake 50 to 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. 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 drizzle over cake; remove pan.

- Serve warm. Store cake loosely covered.