Very tasty and moist. While delicious year-round, this pineapple upside-down cake is especially delicious around the holidays.
Prep Time: | 20 mins |
Cook Time: | 35 mins |
Additional Time: | 30 mins |
Total Time: | 1 hr 25 mins |
Servings: | 14 |
Yield: | 1 8-inch layer cake |
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 (8 ounce) can sliced pineapple
- ½ cup buttermilk
- ¼ cup dark rum
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup white sugar
- ¾ cup packed brown sugar
- ¾ cup unsalted butter, softened
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Melt brown sugar, butter, and honey for topping in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring until smooth.
- Pour butter mixture into the bottoms of two ungreased 8-inch round cake pans. Drain pineapple slices and reserve 1/4 cup juice for the cake. Layer pineapple slices on top of the butter mixture.
- Combine buttermilk, rum, and reserved pineapple juice in a small bowl. Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, and salt in another small bowl.
- Beat white and brown sugars with butter in a large bowl until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Mix in 1/2 of the flour mixture, then all of the buttermilk mixture, and finally the remaining flour mixture until well combined. Divide cake batter evenly between the two pans.
- Bake in the preheated oven until cakes are golden and a toothpick inserted in the centers comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes.
- Remove from the oven place on wire racks until completely cooled, 30 to 45 minutes. Turn one cake out onto a serving plate, then carefully turn second cake directly on top of the first.
Nutrition Facts
Calories | 427 kcal |
Carbohydrate | 62 g |
Cholesterol | 84 mg |
Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
Protein | 4 g |
Saturated Fat | 11 g |
Sodium | 147 mg |
Sugars | 46 g |
Fat | 18 g |
Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |