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Pineapple Upside-Down Rum Cake

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  • Prep 20 min
  • Total 1 hr 35 min
  • Servings 12
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It’s your favorite dessert with a tropical twist! Pineapple upside-down cake is good, but pineapple upside-down cake with pineapple rum infused is so much better. Everything else you love about this classic dessert remains the same—juicy pineapple rings are baked in a caramel-like brown sugar sauce with a buttery yellow cake on top. Once the cake turns a decadent golden brown color, turn the maraschino cherry-studded dessert upside down, and brush the hot-from-the-oven cake with rum. Serve with whipped cream for a tropical treat that’ll whisk you away to paradise!
By Angie McGowan
Updated Jul 21, 2023
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Ingredients

Steps

  • 1
    Heat oven to 350°F. In 13x9-inch (3-quart) glass baking dish, melt butter in oven. Sprinkle brown sugar evenly over butter. Arrange pineapple slices in 4 rows by 3 rows over brown sugar. Place 1 cherry in center of each pineapple slice.
  • 2
    In large bowl, beat cake mix, oil, eggs and 1 cup reserved pineapple juice with electric mixer on medium speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Pour batter over pineapple and cherries.
  • 3
    Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Immediately run knife around edges of baking dish to loosen cake. Cool 5 minutes.
  • 4
    Place heatproof serving plate upside down onto baking dish; turn plate and dish over. Remove dish. Brush rum over warm cake. Cool 30 minutes. Serve warm or cool. Store loosely covered at room temperature.

Tips from the Betty Crocker Kitchens

  • tip 1
    No (8-oz) cans of pineapple slices? Use 2 (20-oz) cans of pineapple slices in juice to get the 12 slices for this recipe. Refrigerate remaining slices for another use.
  • tip 2
    For a different flavor twist, replace pineapple rum with coconut rum.
  • tip 3
    If desired, garnish each piece of cake with a dollop of whipped cream.
  • tip 4
    Confidence makes all the difference when inverting the cake. After placing serving plate upside-down over dish, grasp firmly and flip in one quick motion.

Nutrition

350 Calories, 12g Total Fat, 3g Protein, 55g Total Carbohydrate, 40g Sugars

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Serving
Calories
350
Calories from Fat
110
Total Fat
12g
18%
Saturated Fat
4g
21%
Trans Fat
0g
Cholesterol
55mg
19%
Sodium
290mg
12%
Potassium
90mg
3%
Total Carbohydrate
55g
18%
Dietary Fiber
0g
0%
Sugars
40g
Protein
3g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A
4%
4%
Vitamin C
4%
4%
Calcium
10%
10%
Iron
6%
6%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 0 Fat;
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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