Mini Pineapple Upside Down Cakes Recipe

To make these mini pineapple upside down cakes you ll need flour cornstarch brown sugar granulated sugar cinnamon salt baking powder rum or vanilla extract totally your call pineapple juice pineapple slices and maraschino cherries.

Mini pineapple upside down cakes recipe.

Spoon pineapple into prepared cups. Lightly press well drained pineapple slices into sugar mixture. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups. Beat in the egg milk reserved pineapple juice and remaining butter just until combined.

In a small bowl combine the flour sugar baking powder salt and allspice. Directions in a small bowl combine brown sugar and butter until blended. Beat 2 minutes on high speed. 3 bake 30 to 35 minutes or until golden brown and cakes spring back with touched lightly in center.

Reserve 2 pineapple slices for another use. Pour cake mixture over to fill muffin tin 3 4 of the way full. In large bowl beat cake mix 1 cup pineapple juice the oil and eggs with electric mixer on low speed until moistened. Drain pineapple reserving the juice.

Place cherries and pecans in center of pineapple slices. Arrange pineapple slices in a single layer in pan. Add a cherry in the middle of each pineapple. If you are using regular muffin tins you will need to cut down the rings to fit or just use pineapple tidbits.

Evenly divide sugar mixture into 18 2 3 cup muffin cups sprayed with cooking spray. Place cherries in center of pineapple sliced side up.