Pineapple upside down cake

Pineapple upside down cake

Bake a classic dessert. The buttery rich and caramelized pineapples takes a normal sponge cake to greater heights. Serve this as a cake or a dessert and people are gonna love it. Here's what you will need for this lovely caramelized upside down cake.

Ingredients

• Pineapple fresh or canned : 6 rings
• Butter : 100 grams
• Maida or all purpose flour : 200 gms
• Sugar fpr caramelisation : 5 tbsp
• Condensed milk : 1 can
• Baking powder : 1 tsp
• Soda bicarbonate : 1 tsp
• Pineapple essence : 1/2 tsp
• Aereated soda : 125 ml

Method

1. Grease a baking tin with butter and dust maida and prepare the cake tin. Pre heat the oven at 180°C
2. Arrange the rings in a good pattern . I arranged it to form a circle and then one ring on the centre too.
3. Add the sugar to a flat pan and allow it to caramelise . Do not stir. Just swirl the pan once it starts to caramelize. Once it turns golden brown pour it generously over the pineapple rings in the cake tin.
4. Melt the butter and allow to cool. Just bring it to the boiling point and switch off the flame and stir to melt
5. Sieve all the three dry ingredients
6. By now the butter should be cooled down. Now add the condensed milk and stir well until combined
7. To this wet ingredients add 1/3 rd of the sieved dry ingredients and mix well. Then add 1/3 rd of the soda and mix well. Keep alternating until dry ingredients and soda is completely blended with the butter and condensed milk.
8. Pour the batter on top of the caramelized rings and bake in a hot oven for 35-40 minutes or until the cake is completely cooked.
   Once cooled its time to demould this beauty by inverting on a plate and slice and serve this amazing delicacy as a cake or dessert!

Note : If you are using a spring foam tin to bake this cake then place the cake tin on a baking tray and bake rather than the wire rack as the caramel might melt out and make a mess in the oven.
If you are using the canned pineapples you can add a couple of teaspoons of the liquid in the tin to the cake batter. This gives a natural flavour to the cake.

Happy Baking!!
Shabana