Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, iron skillet pineapple upside-down cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Making this in an iron skillet is very handy and everyone thinks it makes for good flavor too. Remove from oven and turn onto heat-proof plate. This skillet pineapple upside-down cake is baked in a cast iron skillet and served warm.
Iron Skillet Pineapple Upside-down Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Iron Skillet Pineapple Upside-down Cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have iron skillet pineapple upside-down cake using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Iron Skillet Pineapple Upside-down Cake:
- Take 1 box Duncan Hines Pineapple Supreme cake mix (with some minor ingredient changes)
- Get 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- Take 3 large egg yolks (reserve egg whites in medium bowl)
- Take 20 oz can crushed pineapple drained (reserve juice)
- Get 1 cup reserved pineapple juice (in place of water as listed on box)
- Prepare 1 stick of butter
- Get 1 cup packed brown sugar
Arrange pineapple slices over sugar mixture; Place a cherry in the center of each. Sprinkle with pecans and set aside. In large bowl cream sugar and remaining butter; Beat in eggs and vanilla. Upside down cakes have been around for a long time, I can remember my grandmother making them and she hers.
Instructions to make Iron Skillet Pineapple Upside-down Cake:
- Preheat oven to 325°
- In a 10" iron skillet, melt butter. Add brown sugar and cook until bubbly.
- Add pineapple to sugar mixture and continue cooking for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.
- In large bowl, add cake mix, reserved pineapple juice, oil and egg yolks. Mix well.
- In medium bowl, beat egg whites on high speed until stiff and thick like whipped cream. Gently fold beaten egg whites into cake batter until mixed well.
- Pour batter over pineapple mixture and bake at 325° for 25-30 minutes or until cake is golden brown and toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Let cake stand 5 minutes. Loosen edges with knife, place cake plate on top of cake, hold your breath and flip it upside-down. Enjoy!
This type of homemade cake got its name from its preparation. There's no better way to make a pineapple upside down cake, the cast iron skillet makes a big difference! Folks have been making cakes upside down for centuries—ever since the invention of the cast-iron skillet. Pineapple upside-down cake premiered not long after inventor James Dole started putting out perfectly cut pineapple rings, after making the machine that produced perfect cuts. Spread brown sugar evenly over bottom of skillet.
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