Diane's Hawaiian Upside Down Bundt Cake

 

Diane's Hawaiian Upside Down Bundt Cake

Beat together

•   3 eggs                
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil 

Add 

• 2 1/2 cups flour (Gold Medal)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda 
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

 Add

• 1/2 cup orange juice 
• juice from the can of pineapple 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

 Turn off mixer scrape bowl then beat on high a few minutes

Grease and Flour a Bundt or angel food pan, lay slices of pineapple evenly in the bottom of the pan, you may add a maraschino cherry to center of each slice if you like.  Sprinkle the tablespoon of sugar evenly over them, sprinkle the coconut evenly over that, drizzle maple syrup evenly over that, drizzle the melted butter over that, then add the batter. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 55 minutes or until test pick comes out clean. Immediately place heatproof serving plate upside down over pan; turn plate and pan over. Leave pan over cake a few minutes tapping with handle of butter knife until  mixture can drizzle over cake; remove pan. ENJOY!

• 5 pineapple slices
• 1 c. shredded coconut
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• drizzled maple syrup
• 2/3 stick of butter melted

Diane's Pineapple Caramel Topped Apple Cake

Diane's Pineapple Caramel Topped Apple Cake

Preheat Oven

Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and ten minutes

Step One: 

In a sauce pan over low heat melt 3/4 stick of butter, add 3/4 C. Brown Sugar, stir until bubbly, add one C. well drained crushed pineapple.  Stir until thick. Set aside to cool.

Step Two:

Cream together 3/4 C. Canola Oil, 3 lg eggs, 1 C. Brown Sugar, 1 C. White Sugar, 1 heaping tablespoon of cinnamon, 1 tablespoon of vanilla, and 1/2 C. applesauce.  On slow speed  add 1/2 teas. baking soda, 1/2 teas. baking powder then gradually adding  2 1/4 cups of all purpose flour. After well blended add 3 large peeled, cored, and diced Macintosh apples, mix lightly until stirred into batter. 

Step Three: 

Grease and flour your choice of pan, I used a Bundt pan.  Pour ingredients of Step One into bottom of pan spreading evenly. Now add batter from Step Two spreading evenly over ingredients of Step One.  Bake in 325 degree preheated oven for 1 hr. 10 mins. 

Immediately place heatproof serving plate upside down over pan; turn plate and pan over. Leave pan over cake a few minutes so brown sugar mixture can drizzle over cake; remove pan. Serve warm. Store cake loosely covered.

♥ ENJOY! ♥