Grandma's Skillet Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Name: Grandma's Skillet Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients: 1 stick butter 1 stick butter; 1 ½ cups packed brown sugar 1 ½ cups packed brown sugar; 1 (20 ounce) can sliced pineapple 1 (20 ounce) can sliced pineapple; 1 (4 ounce) jar cherries 1 (4 ounce) jar cherries; 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour; 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder; ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon salt; 1 ½ cups white sugar 1 ½ cups white sugar; ½ cup butter ½ cup butter; 2 large eggs 2 large eggs; 1 cup milk 1 cup milk; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Prep: 15 minsCook: 45 mins

Prep

15 mins

Cook

45 mins

Servings

Difficulty

Medium

Vegetarian

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Ingredients

Servings:

11 stick butter
11 ½ cups packed brown sugar
11 (20 ounce) can sliced pineapple
11 (4 ounce) jar cherries
11 ½ cups all-purpose flour
22 ½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt½ teaspoon salt
11 ½ cups white sugar
½ cup butter½ cup butter
22 large eggs
11 cup milk
22 teaspoons vanilla extract

Instructions

1
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2
Melt 1 stick butter in the bottom of a cast iron skillet over medium heat, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat and sprinkle brown sugar evenly over butter. Add pineapple slices to the skillet in a decorative layer with a cherry in the middle of each pineapple ring. Set aside.
3
Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl.
4
Cream sugar and 1/2 cup butter together in a bowl. Add eggs and mix. Add flour mixture and milk in an alternating fashion. Add vanilla extract and mix well. Pour mixture evenly over pineapples in the skillet.
5
Bake in the preheated oven until cake is golden brown, about 40 minutes.
6
Let cake cool in the skillet for 10 minutes before inverting onto a serving plate. Serve warm.

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