Pineapple Upside Down Cake

[childofhiphop]

My kitchen reno is finally winding down.

I think I want to christen my new oven with homemade pineapple upside down cake.

Anyone have a good (stress GOOD) melt in your mouth recipe?

Thank you!


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[thejackpot]

I liked your post because your Reno is almost done not because I have a recipe


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[skwcm80]

I like to bake so I'll just hang out in this thread for a while.

Sorry for getting your hopes up.

[redwino]

I came in for a recipe too. Lol. I rarely cook so I've got nothing.

[skwcm80]

Nov 8, 2016 17:52:01 GMT -5 redwino said:

I came in for a recipe too. Lol. I rarely cook so I've got nothing.

Dang! I thought a recipe had been posted.

[orangeblossom]

I'll post one this afternoon

[childofhiphop]

Nov 9, 2016 10:00:45 GMT -5 orangeblossom said:

I'll post one this afternoon

Thank you!!

[orangeblossom]

Here's one recipe, I've made in years past.  Haven't done it a long time, but it was good.  You need a 11x14 pan.

Ingredients:
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 Tbsp butter
1 can (30 oz) pineapple slices
10 maraschino cherries
2 cups cake flour, sifted
2 Tbsp baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg beaten
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup milk

Directions:
1. Sprinkle brown sugar in bottom of well-greased pan.  Dot with butter.
2. Drain pineapple
3. Place slices in pan with cherry in center of each slice
4. Sift together flour,  baking powder and salt
5. Cream shortening (I don't use shortening much these days and would probably use canola oil instead); add sugar gradually and beat until fluffy
Add egg and vanilla and beat well
6. Add egg and vanilla and beat well
7. Add flour mixture, a little at a time, alternatively with milk
8. Pour batter over fruit
9. Bake at 350 degrees until brown 50 to 60 minutes
10. Turn upside down on serving plate (I like to wait until cake is completely cooled, before turning right-side up, as I've ruined many a cake, by turning over too soon).

[orangeblossom]

This is from America's Test Kitchen. I've not made it, but they haven't steered me wrong yet, so I'll put this one too.

9 inch cake pan

Ingredients:
12 tablespoons (1.5 sticks) unsalted butter, sofetened
3/4 cup light brown sugar
1 pineapple, peeled, cored and cut into 1-inch chunks (if using canned, by chunks instead of rings and make sure they are well-drained)
1.5 cups all-purpose flour
1.5 tsp salt
3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs, room temperature
1 large egg white, room temp
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/3 cup whole milk, room temp

1. Adjust an oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Place 4 tablespoons of butter in a 9-inch round cake pan with 3-inch sides and plaec in the oven until butter melts, 3 to 5 minutes

2. Remove pan from oven. Stir in brown sugar into melted butter, then pat the mixture on the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon. Arrange the pineapple pieces over the sugar in a single layer and set aside. Whisk the flour, bakng powder and salt together in a medium bowl and set aside.

3. Beat the remaining 8 tablespoons butter and granulated sugar together in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy, 3 to 6 minutes. Beat in the eggs and egg white, one at a time, until incorportaed, scraping down bowl and beaters as needed. Beat in the vanilla.

4. Reduce the speed to low and beat in one third of the flour mixture. Beat in half of the milk. Repeat with half of the remaining flour mixture, then the remaining milk, and finally the remaining flour mixture (batter will be thick).

5. Drop mounds of batter over the pineapple, smooth the top, the rap the pan on the counter several times to settle the batter. Bake until wooden skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out with a few crumbs attached, 45 - 50 minutes, rotating pan halfway through baking.

6. Let the cake cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Run a paring knife around teh edge of the cake to loosen from the pan. Place an inverted serving platter over teh cake pan. Flip the cake cool completely before serving, about 2 hours.

[redwino]

Thanks orangeblossom! Im going to try making one this weekend.

[orangeblossom]

childofhiphop. I saw this super easy recipe on the Today show and thought of this thread

www.today.com/food/martha-stewart-s-pineapple-upside-down-cake-chocolate-pie-t106857

[childofhiphop]

Jan 10, 2017 8:57:03 GMT -5 orangeblossom said:

childofhiphop . I saw this super easy recipe on the Today show and thought of this thread

www.today.com/food/martha-stewart-s-pineapple-upside-down-cake-chocolate-pie-t106857

OOH! Thank you for thinking of me. I haven't had a chance to cook anything beyond regular-old-dinner in my new kitchen.

Also, as much as I want a good pineapple upside down cake (and dream about it), as of my doctor's appointment yesterday, I'm down 50 lbs in 2 1/2 years (lowest weight since 2007!!!!) so I'm really feeling momentum to keep riding the good habits wave and if I made the cake, I'd feel inspired to eat most of it by myself.

Maybe I'll half one of the recipes and make mini-cakes?

[orangeblossom]

Jan 11, 2017 12:01:54 GMT -5 childofhiphop said:

Jan 10, 2017 8:57:03 GMT -5 orangeblossom said:

childofhiphop . I saw this super easy recipe on the Today show and thought of this thread

www.today.com/food/martha-stewart-s-pineapple-upside-down-cake-chocolate-pie-t106857

OOH! Thank you for thinking of me. I haven't had a chance to cook anything beyond regular-old-dinner in my new kitchen.

Also, as much as I want a good pineapple upside down cake (and dream about it), as of my doctor's appointment yesterday, I'm down 50 lbs in 2 1/2 years (lowest weight since 2007!!!!) so I'm really feeling momentum to keep riding the good habits wave and if I made the cake, I'd feel inspired to eat most of it by myself.

Maybe I'll half one of the recipes and make mini-cakes?

Get it girl re weight loss. That's awesome. A mini cake could work or you could sub a flax egg or aquafaba for the egg, use a little whole wheat flour, and maybe less sugar.

I'm like you, and would end up eating the whole thing too.