Upside-Down Cake (This can made in a cake pan or as muffins. You can use different canned fruit. It is so fun to make with kids.)
1. Melt 1/4 cup of butter in a frying pan. (Cast Iron or one that can go in the oven.) (Step 1 and 2 can be done in the microwave.)
2. Mix in 3/4 cup of brown sugar and take off the stove.
3. Lay sliced canned pineapple on the brown sugar and butter.
4. Mix in a bowl:
- 1 cup flour
- ½ T. baking powder
5. Mix in another bowl:
- ½ cup oil or butter
- 3/4 cup sugar or brown sugar
- 1 t. vanilla
- 2 eggs
6. Mix into egg mixture: (Alternate)
- Flour mixture
- 6 T. milk
7. Spoon batter on top of the pineapple in the frying pan.
8. Put the pan in the oven and bake at 350 for 30 min.
9. Place a tray on top of the pan, then turn the cake upside down. Can eat with Whipped Cream.
(A stable whipped cream is made by whipping 1 cup of whipping cream until it thickens. Then add 1 T. of instant vanilla pudding, ½ t. of vanilla and 1 to 2 T. of powdered sugar. Then whip a few seconds until thick. )
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