Pineapple Up-Side-Down Cake

Name: Pineapple Up-Side-Down Cake (Bizcocho de Piña)
Cuisine: Puerto Rican
Ingredients: 3 ounces (6 tablespoons) butter; ½ cup sugar; 1 can (1 pound 4 ounces) sliced pineapples; 9 Maraschino cherries; 1¼ cups sifted flour; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 egg; ¼ teaspoon salt; ½ cup drained syrup (from can of pineapples); ½ cup drained syrup (from can of pineapples); ½ cup brown sugar, firmly packed; 1½ ounces (3 tablespoons) butter

Bizcocho de Piña

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Puerto Rican Cookery

By Carmen Aboy Valldejuli

Published 1983

About

Ingredients

A

1½ ounces (3 tablespoons) butter
½ cup brown sugar

Americas
Vegetarian
Cake
Puerto Rico
Caribbean

Method

Preheat oven to 350°F.
Melt butter included in A over low heat in an 8 x 8 x 2-inch aluminum pan.
Remove from heat, and sprinkle brown sugar included in A over butter.
Drain can of pineapple. Measure ½ cup syrup and