Pineapple upside down cake recipe: Machine-cut pineapples drenched in sugar syrup, how pretty and perfect! I used these babies in a pretty nice pineapple upside down cake recipe. I often end up baking with chocolate whenever I do bake and when I was asked to bring dessert for a potluck a few weeks back, I resolved not to let chocolate anywhere near the dish.
This recipe is slightly fansy-pansy. It calls for demerara sugar. I bought it just for this purpose, just so that I won't screw up a second time.
Sidenote: Is demarara sugar available in India? If you know if a place, do leave a comment. Thanks!
Other cake recipes you may wish to try:
Christmas fruit cake
Orange cake with toffee sauce
Pineapple cupcake recipe
Flourless almond coconut cake
Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Makes one 9" cake
Adapted from Sanjeev Kapoor's Cakes and Bakes
(Amazon
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Ingredients:
1 cup regular all purpose flour or maida
8 slices canned pineapple, drained
150gm / ¾ cup butter at room temperature
¾ cup demerara sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 eggs, separated
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup powdered sugar, sifted
½ cup milk (low fat works too)
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 190C / 275 F
2. Mix ¼ cup butter with the demerara sugar and spread it at the bottom of a greased 9" cake pan.
3. Arrange a layer of pineapple slices over it, slicing them to adjust and fill the gaps.
4. Sift the flour and baking powder. Keep aside.
5. Beat the egg yolks in a small bowl and add in the rest of the butter (½ cup) and the vanilla essence. Combine until smooth.
6. Whisk the egg whites until soft peaks form. Don't overdo this otherwise the egg whites will turn dry.
7. Fold in the sifted sugar, one tablespoon at a time. Then fold in the egg yolk mixture.
8. And finally the flour mixture, ¼ cup at a time. Be gentle and only mix until the flour disappears into the batter. Don't over-mix.
9. Pour the batter over the pineapple slices and bake for about 30-40 mins.
10. Make sure that you test the cake and not go by time because the first time I did that, I ended up under-baking the cake by about 10 mins or so. This one below is done perfectly!
The butter-sugar mixture will caramelize and come up a bit at the sides. Its yum!
Unfortunately, I don't have a great final picture of the finished cake. I had to pack this in foil and take it for a party so no pics of slices.
It's definitely tasty but I am not satisfied with it. I think pineapple, butter, sugar and flour can make something better - so the search is still on. Leave a comment if you have a great pineapple upside down cake recipe on your site!
Jayashree
I love the pic of the round pineapple slices. Most supermarkets in Chennai sell demerara sugar.
The Scatterbrain
I see people have answered the question already. I got a packet of demerara sugar at nuts & spices once and also saw it at Nilgris. I dont know how to store it though, as it hardened up before I could use it. So every time I needed some, I'd use my pestle, break off a chunk and powder it in my faithful mixie.
Suhaina
cake looks yummy dear, but i think it should have caramelized a bit more towards the pineapple side.. any ways the cake look gorgeous just like you...I envy those who enjoyed it. hehehe.
DSK
Hey nags the pic looks really tempting 🙂
I have pineapple up side down cake recipe too..
u can check recipe....
http://dskrecipes.blogspot.com/2010/10/pineapple-up-side-down-cake.html
Srimathi
The came has turned out well. I am sure you must have been satisfied with that.
Priya
Beautiful looking cake, absolutely divine..
callezee
Amazing blog.. wow..! superb dish.... i like your post....
Nags
Suhaina, I agree! It could have become a bit more browner at the bottom but that would mean sanjeev kapoor's baking time instruction would be wrong by 20-25 nins and I was a bit alarmed at that. Will surely be trying my hand at this again 🙂
Nitha
Looks wonderful...
Mriganayani
Gosh.. I love the sugar bubbling on the sides!
Can't we just use brown sugar instead of the Dem sugar? I've got to make this one day - its been on my list for so long now that its almost forgotten! Looks pretty pretty!