Pineapple Upside Down Cake With Yellow Cake Mix Recipe

Though the cherries and nuts look nice and taste great they are optional pour cake batter on top of the pineapple cherry nut mixture.

Pineapple upside down cake with yellow cake mix recipe.

Melt butter in an 8 inch round glass cake dish in microwave oven about 30 seconds at high. Melt butter and add the brown sugar to the butter. Cook uncovered until brown sugar melts about 2 minutes at high. Mix brown sugar into melted butter.

Place butter in 13x9 inch pan. Sprinkled drained pineapple and diced maraschino cherries evenly over the brown sugar butter mix. Let stand 5. Use 1 4 cup brown sugar and 2 tbsp butter or margarine per 9 inch pan.

Drain pineapple and save all the juice. As soon as cake is done place a plate over the cake and turn upside down and carefully remove pan. Do not substitute pineapple juice for water pour batter evenly over fruit. One can of sliced pineapple has 10 slices so worked just fine.

Place in oven and bake as directed on cake box. For 3 cups of sweetened whipped cream in chilled medium bowl beat 1 1 2 cups whipping cream and 2 tablespoons granulated sugar with electric mixer on high speed until soft peaks form. Bake 50 minutes or until toothpick in center comes out clean. Spread evenly in a 9 x 13 pan.

Pineapple juice yellow cake mix light brown sugar pineapple slices and 4 more pineapple upside down cake recipe trisha dishes eggs pineapple rings oil cooking spray vanilla cake mix brown sugar and 3 more. Place the cherries and nuts between the pineapple slices. Place pan in oven to melt butter. Serve with sweetened whipped cream or an 8 oz container of frozen thawed whipped topping 3 cups if desired.

Standard cake mixes come in 16 5 oz boxes since recipe calls for 9 oz mix and my box of mix was 16 5 oz i made two cakes.