Pineapple Upside Down Cake
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 12 slices
 
Truly Great Pineapple Upside Down Cake. Adapted from http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/pineapple_upside_down_cake/
Ingredients
  • Topping
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup butter
  • 1½ cans pineapple rings 20 oz cans
  • Cake
  • 1½ cups all purpose flour
  • 6 tablespoons cake flour
  • 6 tablespoons ground almonds or almond flour
  • ¾ teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoons salt
  • 1¾ cups sugar
  • 1 cup butter (two sticks) slightly softened or room temperature
  • 4 eggs
  • ¾ teaspoons vanilla extract
  • ¾ cup sour cream
Instructions
  1. Get out your 12 inch Cast Iron skillet. Make the caramel topping by putting the brown sugar and butter into the skillet on medium heat. Once the butter and sugar begin to melt, gently stir until the sugar dissolves and the mixture is bubbly. Arrange pineapple rings in a single layer on top of the caramel mixture, and half rings along the sides.
  2. Preheat oven to 325° F. Stir the flours, ground almonds, baking powder, and salt in a mixing bowl. Set aside.
  3. In your mixer, beat the sugar and butter together until light. (you want it incorporated well, and a light yellow color, but try not to over mix it or the cake's texture won't be as fluffy)
  4. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition, then beat in the vanilla. It will look like the batter is coming apart a little, but if you keep going it will come back together.
  5. Add dry ingredients alternately with sour cream, beating just until mixed after each addition.
  6. Pour cake batter over caramel and pineapple in the skillet.
  7. Bake cake until tester inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes. Cool cake in skillet for 15 minutes.
  8. Turn cake out onto a platter. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Recipe by Average Ninja at https://average.ninja/blog/2015/07/23/pineapple-upside-down-cake-2/