Pineapple Upside Down Cake - Easy Way
"This was my Dad's favorite."
photo by Lavender Lynn
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
-
1 cake
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 1⁄4 cup margarine
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar
- 1 (20 ounce) can pineapple slices, drained (reserve liquid)
- 1 (10 ounce) jar maraschino cherries (optional)
- 1 (18 1/4 ounce) box yellow cake mix
- 3 eggs (or as called for by your cake mix)
- 1⁄3 cup oil (or as called for by your cake mix)
- water (plus reserved pineapple juice to make the quantity called for by your cake mix)
directions
- Melt 1/2 stick margarine in a 9 X 9 baking pan.
- Add brown sugar and stir until mixed.
- Place canned pineapple slices over mixture.
- If desired, add maraschino cherry half or a nut in the center of the slice.
- Using the pineapple juice as the liquid, stir up a box of yellow cake mix according to the box directions and pour over all.
- Bake according to box directions or until it looks done and brown.
- Go around the edge with a knife, then place a large platter over the cake and invert so that pineapple slices are on top.
- Scoop out anything left in pan and add to cake. Serve with whipped topping if desired.
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Reviews
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Love this easy way for PUDC. Easy and quick and delicious. I used 2 9x9 pans instead of 1. It just looked like too much batter for a 9x9 to me. Made for My 3 Chefs.
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Thirty some years ago, mom published the first Hawman Family Cookbook to give each of her three daughters a way to carry our favorite recipes from childhood off into the next phase of our lives. I still have the original pages, straight from the typewriter, with traces of whited-out type showing through the corrected lines, and with drips and grease stains highlighting my favorite recipes.
With my own daughter now ready to head out on her own, it's time for an updated version complete with her favorites as well. I'm starting this project in January 2010, with a goal of completing the "new expanded edition" in time for Christmas presents in December. I'll be using Recipezaar to collect the recipes, but my hope is to publish my final book complete with the stories and pictures evoked by this memory book of family food. For that, I'm looking forward to countless conversations with my 81-year-old mother, sisters, and children as well as others in my extended family. Let the fun begin!
Noelle
