Pineapple Upside-Down Cake with Vanilla Sauce
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Serves: 8-10
 
Ingredients
Cake
  • 3 Tbsp butter (or margarine)
  • ¾ cup brown sugar
  • 16 oz can pineapple rings in juice
  • ¼ - ½ cup walnut halves
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup sugar
  • ½ cup juice, drained from pineapple
  • 1½ tsp vanilla
  • 1½ cups flour
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
Vanilla Sauce
  • 1" piece vanilla bean
  • 2 cups heavy cream
  • ¼ cup sugar
Instructions
For the Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 350F.
  2. Melt 3 Tbsp butter in a 9" springform pan. Sprinkle brown sugar evenly over melted butter.
  3. Arrange pineapple slices (saving the juice) over the sugar. Put walnuts in pineapple centres and around edges. Set aside.
  4. In a medium bowl, beat eggs until fluffy. Gradually add sugar and beat until thick.
  5. Add the pineapple juice and vanilla. Mix well.
  6. Add the flour, salt and baking powder. Beat until smooth.
  7. Scrape cake batter into prepared cake pan. I like to surround the bottom of the cake pan with some aluminium foil, which prevents any of the melted butter from dripping out and burning if your springform pan has any minute gaps.
  8. Bake 50 minutes, then let cool.
  9. Turn out cake, upside down, onto a cake platter.  Serve with vanilla sauce, o whipped cream
Vanilla Sauce
  1. Slit vanilla bean in half and scrap pulp into a small saucepan.
  2. Stir in cream and bring to a boil.
  3. Add sugar, stir, and let sauce cool. Chill well.
  4. To serve, pour a small puddle onto a plate and put a slice of cake right in the middle. Enjoy!
Recipe by Kiku Corner at https://www.kikucorner.com/2014/05/17/pineapple-upside-down-cake-with-vanilla-sauce/