Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Ingredients:

topping:
1/3 loving cup butter
1/3 loving cup night chocolate-brown sugar
1 tablespoon dark rum
1 tablespoon lite corn syrup

20 oz canned pineapple rings inward 100% pineapple juice, drain as well as reserve juice for batter
maraschino cherries*


cake:
1 1/2 cups flour**
1 loving cup sugar
1/3 loving cup butter, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla paste
ii eggs, at room temperature
ii tablespoons dark rum
1/2 loving cup pineapple juice (from canned pineapple rings)
1 teaspoon cardamom
ii teaspoons baking powder
pinch bounding main salt

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. Butter or spray (with cooking spray amongst flour) a 9-10 inch springform pan***. Arrange pineapple rings on the bottom of the pan. Add a maraschino cherry to the centre of each ring. Set aside.

In a pocket-size saucepan, melt as well as stir together butter, chocolate-brown sugar, rum as well as corn syrup. Cook over depression rut nearly v minutes or until it thickens slightly. Stir thoroughly to combine. Pour over the pineapple rings. Set aside.

Cream together the softened butter as well as saccharide inward a large bowl. Add the eggs as well as vanilla glue as well as compaction until flour. Whisk together the spices, baking pulverization as well as flour inward a medium bowl. Whisk together the pineapple juice as well as rum. Add the dry out ingredients alternately amongst the pineapple juice mixture starting fourth dimension as well as ending amongst the dry out ingredients. Pour into the pineapple as well as caramel laden cake pan as well as bake 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted inward the centre comes out clean. Allow to cool inward pan v minutes as well as then invert onto a plate. Cool completely, on the plate, over a wire rack.

*If y'all tin detect them, Luxardo Maraschino Cherries are good worth the extra price. They are miles away from the syrupy, garishly ruby cherries establish inward the supermarket for $1.50.

**I used White Lily flour which, spell non quite cake flour, is slightly lighter than all-purpose.

***Traditionally, pineapple upside-down cakes are made inward cast Fe skillets. I don't convey conduct keep a 10-inch skillet (and my 12- as well as 14-inch skillets seemed likewise big) thence I used a springform pan, which I intend plant merely every bit well.

My thoughts:

Another recipe I created for our annual "decade" themed meal(s). This yr it was the 1920s!

Pineapple upside downwards cakes exploded inward popularity during the 1920s. Thanks to Dole, canned pineapple was readily available. Upside downwards cakes made inward cast Fe skillets had already been pop for many years thence it made feel that when the average someone had access to pineapple, they'd comprise them. Upside downwards cakes are wonderful to serve because despite existence relatively simple, they are impressive as well as cheerful looking when presented. They tin also survive made a twenty-four hours ahead of fourth dimension (stored unrefrigerated) as well as remove no icing, which is swell for whatever final infinitesimal dessert needs. I'd intend most people convey all of the ingredients inward their cabinets at all times. I know I do.

For this cake, I made a night rum caramel sauce for the "topping" as well as used fancy maraschino cherries which sense of savor amazing, as well as genuinely similar cherries. I added a chip of cardamom to the cake every bit thence many '20s recipes did but much less than to a greater extent than or less recipes I've seen that telephone band for 2-3 as well as fifty-fifty 4 teaspoons of cardamom. That seemed a chip much. One teaspoon is merely enough, I think. If it genuinely was the Prohibition era 1920s, I mightiness non survive able to become my hands on actual rum thence experience gratis to sub inward to a greater extent than or less skillful character rum flavoring instead. The 1920s was when the usage of vanilla as well as other extracts rose as well as became mutual place. I also used to a greater extent than or less yummy vanilla glue by Heilala Vanilla instead of extract as well as the cake was flecked amongst tiny vanilla seeds. The cake itself is simultaneously dense as well as light, substantial plenty to concord upward the topping without getting soggy (even afterwards a position out of days) but amongst a lite crumb as well as flavor. I intend this is because I used a lot of baking pulverization as well as it form of rose high then gently fell during the baking process.

I convey to say, this is quite possible my husband's favorite cake of all that I've made over the years. He could non halt raving nearly it as well as has requested that a version of it to brand an appearance at his birthday inward May. It genuinely was a pleasance to eat. I tin encounter why they were thence popular!