After long long last I'm going to make for you one of the
most requested cake recipes since day one a Bigger Bolder Baking you've been asking
for this and finally eight years later I'm going to make it. we are making pineapple
upside down cake. It is very retro. It is very cool and it has had a total resurgence
and it is really popular right now. It's really easy. It's delicious. Let's get started.
Okay, so our first step is over at the stovetop so I have a heavy bottomed saucepan here
and into this i'm going to add in some butter and some brown sugar.
And then on a medium heat we're just going to let this melt together and then come to a simmer.
This is going to create the base for our pineapple upside down cake. This is what makes it
so delicious. Gemma, did you make a lot growing up? You know I think when I grew up we did have
pineapple upside down cake loss when I think of it I think of my sister Julie for some reason I
always associate her with pineapple upside down cake because I know that she was a big fan. And
it was just something that like yeah, it's really easy to make. I feel like it's iconic in a lot of
households that like you know a lot of people grew up with like homemade pineapple upside down cake.
There's something about that familiarity that is kind of comforting on nostalgic.
Okay, so this has been simmering for around a minute. Now this is
absolutely perfect. We just wanted to get it a little bit carmelized
then we're going to turn off the heat, move it over here.
And then very carefully pour it into our pan.
There you go. Look at that. This is going to be a beautiful base to put our pineapple on.
So here I have my rings of pineapple. I'm using tinned pineapple, you can use fresh if you want.
Now I have taken away the juice but we reserved it for later on. So don't throw away the juice
that comes in the team. You want to keep that. So just carefully placed in your slices of pineapple.
Make sure that they're well drained. Lovely. So now our next ingredient is the iconic maraschino
cherries. Now you have to have these on a pineapple upside down cake. So remove the
stems and just pop one in the middle of each ring of pineapple. You can leave these out but they do
make it look really pretty and just remind you of like a classic pineapple upside down cake.
Okay, we're going to set this over to the side. We'll come back to that in a minute. And now
we're going to mix together our dry ingredients. So in a small bowl, we'll add in your flour, your
baking powder and your salt and just give that a little mix together. You know I always like to
mix my dry separately just so that the salts, the baking powder, baking soda, whatever it is, gets
mixed up really well before as you get into your wish. So now in a nice big bowl, we're going to
cream together our room temperature ball shirt and our sugars, some white sugar and some brown sugar.
Now, you can do this next step by hand I'm going to use my electric hand mixer, we could do it
by hand, you're just going to really need to give it some welly. Now what we're going to do is just
cream up these ingredients really well together. This is why you need room temperature bar chart
it has to be soft, so little whip. This will take around two to three minutes on high speed.
So technically I have made pineapple upside down cake for you guys before because it's
one of the recipes in my book. It's the Stafford's upside down cake and that's
the kind of cake that we grew up with. This one is a little bit different. It's got more
caramel like you know it has pineapple juice in it. This is kind of next level pineapple cake.
Okay, lovely. Now into this, add in an egg, cream that in.
and then add in your next egg.
And then in you go
once your eggs are mixed, and we're going to take our dry ingredients,
and we're going to just mix those in
like so. And then you can see that kind of coming together.
To this i'm going to add in my little bit of milk.
And here is our secret ingredients is the pineapple juice that we reserved from the 10 you
want to keep half a cup of that pineapple juice. We add that back into the cake batter to give
you like that extra arm of pineapple. Okay, last but not least, a little splash of almond extract.
Now, a very good tip here is don't do what I just did and pour it in,
measure it in your spoon and then add it in because otherwise you can end up with too much.
This is smelling very almondy right now. So there you go. There's our basher. It looks
lovely. It's nice and light and fluffy.
Oh tastes amazing. I can taste the pineapple juice, I can definitely taste the almond
extract. So bring back in your team that we prepared earlier.
Here's one that I prepared earlier. And then just pour your batter over your pineapple.
Make sure you cover up those little pieces of cherries peeking out.
And then that's it.
Now into the oven,
Baker pineapple upside down cake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit or 180 degrees Celsius for roughly
around 35 to 45 minutes or so. It doesn't take long before you're going to be enjoying it.
Oh, this looks gorgeous smells so pineapple Li. So here's what I'm going to do. You want to turn it
out pretty soon after it comes out of the oven so it doesn't stick to the bottom of your pan.
While it's still warm. This is the moment of truth.
How gorgeous.
Look at how gorgeous and golden brown that is, it's still piping hot from the oven. The pineapple
has kind of crystallized a little bit. It's almost kind of like translucent. Has lovely Carmel baked
in all around it. This is absolutely gorgeous. And look at that. When I push the cake it's really
soft and it's soaked in that yummy caramel. While it's still warm, fresh from the oven, I am going
to cut into it. Look at that. See how softer that cake is. And you see that layer of brown like the
caramel bakes down in there. Absolutely gorgeous. This is my favorite parts of the job. The tasting.
You see right away. That transports me back to when we were young. And we would make this at
home. It tastes even better than I remember a tasting. It's soft, it's sweet, super pineapple
and the almond extract from there and makes it really Morrish
and now I have a new recipe to share with my family and George for us to enjoy in the future.
Ask and you shall receive I finally made pineapple upside down cake. I really hope you enjoy it.
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