Pineapple Upside Down Cupcakes

May
11

She bakes!
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Morgan is home for the summer, with her first year of college successfully under her belt! She got a job as a 4-H ambassador and will be working in nearby Clay County. First night home, she made a batch of pineapple upside down cupcakes. She doesn’t like pineapple, or even cake much, but she had made these for her boyfriend recently and I talked her into making some for me. Because I like pineapple and cake. She said she found the recipe floating around on Facebook, and it’s based on your typical pineapple upside down cake–just made into cupcakes, which is an awesome idea! Here’s how you do it.

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How to make Pineapple Upside Down Cupcakes:

2 eggs
2/3 cup sugar
4 tablespoons pineapple juice*
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

*You can just use the pineapple juice in the canned pineapple.

Preheat oven to 350-degrees. Grease muffin tins. (Morgan says you cannot use cupcake liners!) In a mixing bowl, add eggs, sugar, and pineapple juice. Beat two minutes. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt. Add to the wet ingredients and mix another two minutes.
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Meanwhile, make weird faces and prepare the topping.

For the topping–

1/4 cup butter
2/3 cup brown sugar, packed
1 can pineapple rings
1 jar maraschino cherries

In a small sauce pan, melt the butter; add the brown sugar. Stir on low heat for one minute. Spoon a layer of the warm brown sugar mixture into the bottom of each muffin tin. (For Morgan, this made 9 cupcakes. Your mileage may vary.) Place a pineapple ring on top of the butter-brown sugar mixture in each muffin cup, cutting the rings if necessary to fit your muffin cups. Put a cherry in the middle of each pineapple ring. Pour cake mixture over the pineapples and cherries, filling each cup about 3/4 full.
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Bake at 350-degrees for about 20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
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Ta da!
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These were really delicious–the cake itself is very good, too! And if you can get a teenager to make them for you, all the better!

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Comments

  1. Joell says:

    :happyflower:
    Pineapple upside down cake is a favorite here, I have a pan that I use to make little upside down cakes, they are so nice to take to cook outs etc. and just fun to bake. :happyflower:
    Have a nice summer Morgan. :happyflower:

  2. Miss Judy says:

    I can’t believe that you posted this today…I just said I would bring pineapple up-side down cup cakes to school next week! Can’t wait to try out the recipe! Thanks so much…they look delish.

  3. Lois says:

    I think I’m the only one in my family who really likes pineapple upside down cakes so this would be great for me. BUT, Suzanne, you haven’t lived unless you’ve thrown a little rum into the pineapple mixture! I made a cake in my iron skillet and added about 1/8 cup of coconut rum (on hand) before baking and the combo was heavenly! Best part was that the ‘cut’ sides were just as moist at the end as it was the first day. OMgee!

  4. Jersey Lady says:

    Well done, Morgan, and enjoy your summer job. Sounds like fun.

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