Pineapple Upside-Down Minis
photo by Boomette
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
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18 muffins
- Serves:
- 18
ingredients
- 2 (20 ounce) cans pineapple slices (reserve juice)
- 1⁄2 cup margarine or 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 2⁄3 cup packed brown sugar
- 9 maraschino cherries, cut in half
- 1 (18 1/4 ounce) box cake mix (yellow or pineapple)
- 1 cup pineapple juice
- 1⁄3 cup melted butter
- 3 eggs
directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Drain pineapple, reserving juice.
- Mix melted butter or margarine and brown sugar.
- Evenly divide sugar mixture (about 1 1/2 tsp each) into 18 muffin cups (not minis) sprayed with cooking spray.
- Press lightly drained pineapple slices into sugar mixture.
- Place cherries in center of pineapple, cut side up.
- Prepare cake mix according to box, replacing water with the reserved pineapple juice.
- Pour 1/3 cup batter into each muffin cup.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until tester inserted comes out clean.
- Cool 5 minutes or until cool enough to handle.
- *Use knife to run around edges to loosen cakes and invert onto cookie sheet. -OR- I just let them sit for five minutes and then flipped the pan upside down on a cookie sheet and they fell right out.*.
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Reviews
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these turned out very well! only had a caramel cake mix, so I didnt add the pineapple juice.<br/>I cut a small piece from each pinapple ring, so that the ring sat flat in my texas muffin tins. I chopped up the others and cooked them in silicone patty cake cups. The only thing I would change is to add a little less butter next time, as it bubbled around the muffin and made them go lopsided. :) small price to pay for the great taste :)<br/>made for Aussie swap May 2013
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This is a great recipe. Very easy to do. And that way, it was easy to share with some friends LOL I used a small can of pineapple slices and 1 small of pineapple chunks. I used butter. I used 1 whole maraschino cherry for each. I had a white cake mix to use and it was perfect in this recipe. Thanks AZPARZYCH :) Made for 123 hit wonders
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These are wonderful and so easy!!! I can't believe the other reviewer had such problems. I made 1/2 of the recipe using a "Jiffy" yellow cake mix (9 oz.) because I found the larger cake mixes to be too sweet and this worked perfectly. I had a can of pineapple tidbits so used instead of the rings and I left out the cherries, personal preference. The only thing I would change next time is to decrease the amount butter with the brown sugar. Thanks for sharing a wonderful recipe. Made for Newest Tag Game.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
AZPARZYCH
Peoria, 41
<p><span><strong>I am a stay at home mom to two wonderful boys; Joshua (8years), Kaiden (5 years), and baby GIRL, Madalynn (19 months)! I also have two fur babies (cats); Kobee, AJ; we had to put our youngest cat Sly down Jan 2014. :(. I am also married to my best friend, Jeff and have been since April 2005. I love cooking, hate cleaning and will do whatever I can to get out of it! I love grilling and baking. I do most of the grilling at my house, and bake for almost a week straight at Christmas time! I can make or will attempt just about anything, though I rarely make brownies, my husband's are the best! Homemade breads are not my friend, so I am always working on bread baking.</strong></span></p>
<p><span><strong>As for recipe ideas (besides zaar) Cooking Light Cookbooks are my favorites. I love to make new meals and try new things; it is hard though because my husband is picky when it comes to veggies (and hates seafood); If it were up to him we would have baked-bread crumb chicken and white rice at least one meal a day! Over the past couple years with zaar, I have found tons of new recipes my family normally wouldn’t eat but have been happily surprised with new favorites.</strong></span></p>
<p><span><strong>I love to join in all of the tag games; I haven't been as present as I would like, but as soon as my Jeff is back from working in Ohio I will be back in full tagging mode! </strong></span></p>
<p><span><strong>Cooking is my hobby and passion, I always like to host the family get togethers and volunteer for the potluck dishes. Most of all though are my kids; being home all day with them is fun and challenging, but I wouldn’t trade it for any salary!!</strong></span></p>