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
Ingredients:
1 cup regular all purpose flour or maida
8 slices canned pineapple, drained
150gm / 3/4 cup butter at room temperature
3/4 cup demerara sugar
1 tsp baking powder
3 eggs, separated
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup powdered sugar, sifted
1/2 cup milk (low fat works too)
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 190C / 275 F
2. Mix 1/4 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 (1/2 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, 1/4 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!
Cake looks gorgeous:)
These days in Hyderabad we get all kinds of sugar – muscovado , demerara & the likes…
omg this looks so good,..i luv the step by step pictures,..wish u happy festival,..
U have a wonderful blog and this is one gorgeous recipe u have here!!
I absolutely love Upside down cakes and I feel Pineapple cake with tinned slices works best.I bake an eggless version from Nita Mehta's book which gives me perfect results every time.Here's the link to the post on my blog.
http://divyascookbook.blogspot.com/2008/11/pineapple-upside-down-cakeeggless-for.html
and yes,demerara sugar is available in almost all supermarkets in Chennai.
Looks lovely.
I made the some time ago and was quite satisfied with it (http://myjhola.blogspot.com/2009/06/upside-down-wonder.html) Even made a peach and apricot upside down after that( http://myjhola.blogspot.com/2009/08/sunny-side-up-for-filmmaker-bro.html). But I am curious to find out what you invent from the same set of ingredients!
The cake looks so tempting. Nice recipe 🙂
The cake looks yumm…Never attempted pineapple up-side down cake..I do not like fresh pineapple but I get tempted with those canned neatly cut pineapples in sugar syrup…Demerara sugar is available very easily here in mumbai in almost big stores and super markets.
What a lovely recipe….The lat pic is so so tempting…Delicious looking cake. I got demarara sugar once from Nuts & Spices, Chennai.