One of my favorite tea-time treats is the classic pineapple upside-down cake. Place a platter containing the de-molded cake next to a steaming hot cup of good old filter coffee to simply enjoy the sight of sunny goldenness.
This time, I followed a Sanjeev Kapoor recipe and the cake turned out quite nice; it had a nice crumb and the pineapple slices were caramelized just right. I made my own few changes, as usual, and the kitchen was soon filled with a sweet caramel aroma. I think this one will be made quite often now.
Here’s my version of the Pineapple Upside-down cake recipe:
Ingredients:
For the upside-down layer:
- 1 small can pineapple slices, drained
- 1 ½ tbsp. unsalted butter, softened
- ½ cup demerara sugar
- 8-10 cherries (I used glazed cherries)
For the cake:
- 1 cup flour
- 100 gms. unsalted butter, softened
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 cup castor sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla essence
- 3 eggs
Method:
- Grease a cake tin (I used a 7 inch square tin) and line with baking parchment. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees centigrade.
- For the upside-down layer, cream the butter and demerara together and line over the parchment.
- Place the drained pineapple slices over the butter-sugar layer. Bedeck each pineapple eye with a cherry and leave aside.
- Meanwhile, sieve the flour and baking powder together.
- In a food processor, work the butter, eggs, sugar, and vanilla essence until creamy.
- Fold into the flour and baking powder mixture and pour over the pineapple and cherry jewelry.
- Bake for about 45 minutes, staying mostly in the kitchen to enjoy the warm aromas.
- (Cover the cake with parchment if it begins to darken too quickly beyond a rich gold.)
- Enjoy warm on its own or with a dollop of vanilla ice-cream.
Your cake looks ssoo good! Pineapple and cherries are always so goos together 🙂
Thanks, Karine! I'm not a big fan of glazed cherries, but they did a great job this time!
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Man, that cake looks good. I once made this upside down cake and it was SO sweet the only person who enjoyed it was J. I will give this a try for sure!
Yea, this recipe is kinds sweet too. And like with you, the hubby devoured it. Next time, I might just reduce the amount of sugar in the cake. The pineapple layer might suffer from lack of caramelizing, though.
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It looks just purrfect !!
i think i m going to regularly follow your blogs now.. Really interesting photographs adorn the blogs.Keep up the good work yummy mummy !!
i m so going to try it this weekend
yours looks lovely, the cherries add a nice bit of colour 🙂
Hi.. Great blog.. Pics which inspire.. Jus tried this pineapple upside down cake..jus cut down the sugar a bit according to our taste.. It turned out really yummy.. N looks amazing! My family loved it..thank u fr the recipe!
This is one of the best recipes for Pineapple upside down. I wont even call myself amateur baker but I baked using above recipe and the results were fabulous. I wish I could post a picture of my cake. Perfect recipe.