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Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Source of Recipe

Safeway Brand Flour


List of Ingredients

1 16-oz can sliced pineapple
4 tablespoons butter or margarine
2/3 cup brown sugar
8 maraschino cherries, halved
2/3 shortening
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups Safeway Unbleached Flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt



Recipe

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit

Drain pineapple, reserving syrup.

Melt butter in 9 x 9 pan add brown sugar and 2 tablespoons of the reserved pineapple syrup. Add water to the remaining syrup to make 1 cup.

Arrange pineapple in bottom of pan. Place cherry half in center of each slice.

Cream together shortening and sugar until smoothly blended. Add vanilla and eggs, one at a time and beat until fluffy.

Sift together dry ingredients; add alternately with the 1 cup reserved pineapple syrup, beating after each addition.

Spoon batter over pineapple.

Bake at 350 degrees Fahranheit for 50 to 55 minutes.

Cool 10 minutes; invert on plate.

Serve warm.

Whip cream on top (opitional)