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Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Cook Like A Jamaican
What I love about this cake is that it’s really easy to make but it looks so impressive. It’s a wonderful dessert to serve or take to a special dinner.
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Course
Dessert
Cuisine
Jamaican
Ingredients
1/4
cup
Butter
2/3
cup
Brown Sugar
firmly packed
14-
oz
can medium Pineapple Slices
16
whole maraschino cherries
1 1/2
cup
all-purpose Flour
2
tsp
Baking Powder
1/4
tsp
Salt
1/4
cup
unsweetened shredded Coconut
1/2
cup
Butter
1/2
cup
White Sugar
1
egg
1
tsp
Vanilla extract
1
cup
Pineapple Juice
reserved from canned slices
2
Tbsp
Jamaican Rum
Instructions
In sauce pan, melt butter on Medium heat; stir in brown sugar until brown sugar is blended
Pour the butter-brown sugar mixture into a 9-inch baking pan
Place about 8 pineapple slices into the pan; put 2 cherries into the hole of each pineapple slice; set pan aside
Put the flour, baking powder, salt and coconut into a mixing bowl and set aside
In another mixing bowl cream together butter, white sugar, egg and vanilla
Add the rum to the pineapple juice
Add flour and pineapple juice to butter mixture alternating the dry and liquid ingredients to create cake batter; do not over mix the batter
Spread batter over the pineapples in the pan
Put cake into pre-heated 350-degree oven for about 1 hour, or until a knife inserted in the cake comes out clean
Put the pan on a cooling rack let sit for 5 minutes; place cake plate on top of the pan
Flip the pan and the plate over and let it sit for another 5 minutes
Remove the baking pan to unveil a beautiful pineapple cake
Notes
Serve warm with ice cream
Keyword
cake, pineapple, upside down