I'm non certain WHY I've never idea of making a pineapple upside-down cake amongst FRESH pineapple before. Maybe it is because ALL of my cookbooks propose canned pineapple? Maybe it is because canned pineapple is ever inward the pantry? Maybe it is because I'm non real adventurous?
Well, this cake came most due to the rare combination of... "I desire to bake something" + "what tin I produce amongst this real ripe pineapple?" + "the perfect window of time".
The halt resultant was this pineapple upside-down cake made amongst FRESH pineapple together with it was delicious!! The deviation is similar nighttime together with day!!
FRESH PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE
Preheat your oven to 350 together with cutting a parchment newspaper liner for the bottom of a 9" circular cake pan. Spray the pan together with parchment newspaper amongst a lite coating of cooking spray. The parchment newspaper is non absolutely necessary, simply it helps if you lot receive got a "sticking" number amongst the sweetness pineapple glaze (you tin exercise waxed newspaper inward a pinch).
5 tablespoons of melted butter
2/3 loving cup lite brownish saccharide (packed)
3 cups fresh pineapple cutting into 1" cubes (see note)
maraschino cherries cutting inward half
1 1/2 cups all role flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 loving cup butter (room temperature)
2/3 loving cup white sugar
2 eggs
3/4 loving cup pineapple juice (or milk)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon butter extract
1/2 loving cup pecans chopped medium-small
Mix melted butter amongst brownish saccharide together with spread evenly inward prepared 9" circular cake pan. Set aside.
Cut pineapple into 1" chunks together with blot them dry out betwixt several thicknesses of newspaper towel (press on them a piddling to extract excess juice).
For the batter, cream the butter together with saccharide until it is actually fluffy. Under-beating the butter at this phase volition plough over you lot a misfortunate character cake. After it is overnice together with fluffy, add together the eggs (one at a time) together with extracts together with vanquish until its fluffy again.
Sift the flour, baking pulverisation together with cinnamon into a bowl together with add together it to the butter mixture inward 3 parts, alternately amongst the pineapple juice (or milk) starting together with ending amongst the flour. Set aside.
Assembly: Nestle the pineapple, pecans together with cherry pieces downward into the brownish saccharide mixture inward the cake pan (arrange inward pretty fashion because this volition show). Pour the cake batter over the occur together with (very gently) spread it out.
Bake inward 350 oven for 45 to 55 minutes or until a toothpick tests construct clean (my electrical oven takes precisely 45 minutes). Remove from oven together with sit down pan on a cooling rack for xv minutes.
After xv minutes, operate a sparse bladed knife unopen to the border of the cake together with invert onto a serving plate together with pare off the parchment paper. Serve cake warm or at room temperature.
NOTE: Traditionally, pineapple upside-down cake has pretty rings of pineapple amongst cerise cherries inward the centre of each ring. However, when the cake is baked similar that, it is difficult to eat. You either become a large unmanageable hunk of pineapple on your slice of cake or no pineapple at all (does that brand sense?). Instead, I cutting the pineapple into real modest pieces (almost a dice) together with conform the cherries randomly over the cake. It is much easier to cut, serve together with swallow (even if it ISN'T traditional). If you lot exercise this diced pineapple style, it solely takes ii cups of diced fruit instead of three.
ENJOY !!!
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