Pineapple Upside Down Cake

4.72 from 42 votes

This is the best pineapple cake recipe online! It's a moist sponge cake caramelized to perfection with brown sugar pineapple rings and cherries.

Prep Time15

Cook Time28

Cooling Time10

Total Time43

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: people

Calories: 390kcal

Author: Jocelyn Delk Adams

Ingredients

1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup granulated sugar
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsps pure vanilla extract
3 large eggs
¼ cup pineapple juice
½ cup unsalted butter
¾ cup light brown sugar
6-7 fresh pineapple rings or more to create design
maraschino cherries

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Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
For the cake batter: In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, vanilla extract, eggs and pineapple juice until well mixed. Set aside.
Next melt butter to a 9 inch cast iron skillet over medium heat.
Once melted, whisk in brown sugar and cook for 1 minute.
Line the bottom of the butter and sugar mixture with 6 to 7 pineapple rings, place a cherry insdie each ring and cook over medium heat for an additional 2 minutes.
Pour cake batter on top of the pineapples.
Bake cake for 28-33 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
Cool cake for 10 minutes then invert the cake onto a serving plate and serve.

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Notes

A cast-iron pan ensures that your cake cooks evenly and your flavors are consistently delicious. It's heavy steel bottom keeps the butter from burning and the handle makes it easy to flip the cake upside down.

Make sure your cast-iron is properly seasoned so that your cake does not stick to the bottom.

It's best fresh out of the oven and cooled just for a few minutes. When warm, this cake is truly perfection. You could even add a scoop of vanilla ice cream or whipped cream too! In fact, I insist on it.

Make sure fresh pineapple slices are cut thin enough they will cook up tenderly in the time the cake bakes.

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