I don’t really understand the pineapple Easter correlation. I think it might have something to do with ham, but you know what, I really don’t care that much to figure it out. (Okay, I googled it and it is ham related.)
So no ham here but I am all about the pineapple. Last week when I did my grocery shop there were a shit ton of pineapples on sale, so I grab a few figuring that me and the mr would eat them for next week or so. Up until last week, I was positive that the mr really liked pineapple. Until I cut one up. Turns out the mr , for some reason, now doesn't like pineapple that much. What. the, HELL!? This was new news to me. I swear he just says these things to piss me off, but whatever, I guess he is not a fan anymore and it just means more pineapple for me.
But I also made a cake with some of the pineapple because I had so much and also I just wanted to bake a cake. And guess what, turns out the mr does like pineapple, just as long it is in cake form. I should have known.
To the upside down cake!
The stuff. A pineapple, flour, baking soda and power, salt, brown sugar, coconut oil, vanilla and apple cider vinegar.
Cut up pineapple. If you want to get fancy, garb a cookie cutter and cut out pineapple shapes for the upside down part. Or just cut up 1/2 inch slices or rings. however you want.
Get the pan ready. Grease a pan, add a parchment bottom. place about a tablespoon coconut oil into pan and coat bottom of pan then evenly sprinkle in about 1/2 cup brown sugar. Layer in your pineapple.
In a large bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients… (a bowl bigger then mine)
Place pineapple into blender (use scraps if you have them) and blend until smooth. Add in the brown sugar, coconut oil, vanilla, and vinegar and blend until combined.
Pour wet into dry and whisk until combined.
Pour batter over pineapple and into the oven it goes.
Oooooh. Cake. Are you just so excited! You should be, it is an exciting time.
Give it a few minute before flipping it.
Flipped and revealed. So pretty!
Now it’s cake time so get down on it.
-C
Pineapple Upside-down Cake
makes a 12 round or 9x13 inch rectangle cake
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup brown sugar plus 1/4 cup
1/2 cup warm coconut oil plus 1 tablespoon
1 1/2 cups pineapple pureed which Is about 1/2 a small pineapple
About 1/4 pineapple for bottom
1/4 cup water
I tablespoon apple cider vinegar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
First get the pineapple cut up any way you usually do it. If you want specific shapes for the pineapple bottom, keep that in mind and cut the pineapple accordingly. You are going to want the pieces (like the circles that I used) to be about 1/2 inch thick. And if you are using a cut out, my suggestion is to cut out all the pieces that you need to use and use the cut out scrapes to puree.
Grease and parchemnt line a 12 inch round or 9x13 inch rectangle cake pan. Evenly spread a tablespoon coconut oil on parchment then evenly coat with 1/4 cup of brown sugar. Place pineapple cut outs or pieces into pan. It is fine if pineapple pieced overlap a bit but make sure to not go much thicker then1/2 inch in places.
In a large bowl whisk together the flour, baking power and soda, and salt.
Place 1 1/2 cups of chopped pineapple into blender and blend until smooth. Make sure it equals 1 1/2 cup pureed. Add in 1/4 cup water, 3/4 cups brown sugar, 1/2 cup warm coconut oil, vanilla, and the vinegar and blend until completely smooth. Pour mixture into the bowl with the whisked dry ingredients and mix until combined. Pour cake batter gently over pineapple in pan.
Bake for 45-50 minutes or until the cake is a nice golden brown and a tester poke comes out clean.
Remove cake from oven and let cool for about 5 minutes, then invert pan onto a wire rack or plate and remove pan gently. The cake should pop out easily with the parchment attached. Peel parchment off and if any of the pineapple cokes loose, jus stick it back on.
And then cake. Eat it.