Angela's Delicious Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Makes:
8 servings
Total Time:
30 min
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Category:
Desserts
Sub Category: Cakes
what you need
- 1 vanilla or yellow cake mix
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup butter, divided
- 2 cups packed brown sugar, divided
- 1 can pineapple slices, divided (juice reserved)
- 1 jar maraschino cherries, divided
make it
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Make cake batter as directed replacing as much of the water as you can with pineapple juice. Spray sides of 2 (9 inch) cake pans with Pam.
Melt 1/4 cup butter in 1 (9 inch) cake pan over low heat. Turn off heat. Add 1 cup brown sugar over butter spreading evenly. Place sliced pineapple rings over brown sugar as closely as possible. Add half of maraschino cherries in-between and in the center of pineapples. Pour cake batter over cherries.
Repeat steps with remaining ingredients filling cake pans equally.
Bake according to directions on box.
Notes
Let cakes cool for about 20 min. Layer cakes one on top of the other pineapple side up and serve.