Just a quick blog today because I am getting everything
ready for my big fat Have Some Decorum Home sale on Monday.
However, I couldn’t let Fourth of July go by without giving
you my great-grandmother’s pineapple upside down cake recipe! This cake is the perfect
complement to any summer barbecue.
Speaking of Fourth of July and summer barbecues, what are
all of you making? Do you stick to old favorites or do you try something new? I
like to do both.
Okay, here are two recipes for pineapple upside down cake.
First my great-grandmothers via my mother, Anne, and then second, a delicious
one from Saveur magazine.
Pineapple Upside Down Cake
This is really easy and taste great.
Best served warm with Ice Cream.
1 package of yellow cake mix
1 can of slice pineapples
1 jar of red cherries with stem
1 cup of brown sugar
1 stick of butter
In a heavy skillet melt the butter.
When melted add the cup of brown sugar. Might need to add more brown
sugar to have it like a paste texture. Not to thin. If you would
like to add a little cinnamon to the brown sugar you can or nutmeg....Pat it
down flat. Remove from burner. Add the pineapple slices in a
circle in the pan until it is completely covered. Put a cherry in the middle of
the pineapple rings. Without the stem.
Make the cake mix according to the
package. Now pour the cake mix into the pan with all of the good
stuff. Might not use all of it.
Bake in a 350 oven for what the instructions
on the cake have. About 30 minutes? Take it out when a toothpick comes
out clean.
You want it to be moist.
Now take a large plate that you are going to
serve the cake on and place it on top of the skillet and invert the cake into
the serving dish. A little tricky but this way the pineapple topping is
on up and it looks fabulous! Don't let the cake cool to long before you
invert it on the plate. Best done warm. Enjoy... Anne
Can make great little individual cupcakes
this way also.....
Pineapple Upside Down Cake via Saveur Magazine.
Click HERE for recipe.
Happy Fourth of July!
*Something you don’t know about me? My little Graciecakes left
early Wednesday morning to fly back to the states to see her grandparents, her second
father (long story) and all of her friends in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles for
three weeks! I was a nervous wreck thinking of her flying over the Atlantic,
let alone flying at all. I didn’t sleep a wink Tuesday night. Gracie, on the other
hand, couldn’t wait to leave. Gracie is making this trip her culinary tour of
America because, as you know, she is starving in Paris. She has told me at
least 300 times that the second she lands in California she will be going to a
drive-through In-N-Out Burger and ordering animal fries, followed by a Wendy’s
Frosty, a red velvet Sprinkles Cupcake, a Santa Barbara Los Arroyos burrito,
and Whole Foods salad bar. She said also that she will is looking forward to
going to a “regular grocery store” where she can buy Cinnamon Life cereal,
regular milk that is refrigerated, and sliced pepper turkey. As disgusting as
all of that is, when it is not available, it’s all you want. Gracie will be
visiting with my mother, her grandmother. Let me tell you, she’s in for a
treat. Not only does my mother spoil her and cook for morning, noon and night
but she also makes Gracie laugh hysterically. Why? Because my mother says the
funniest things but she just doesn’t know how funny it is until she sees all of
us laughing. I asked Gracie to chronicle the best of my mother this week so I
could share it all with you. Even before Gracie left Wednesday, my mother made
us laugh. Gracie asked my mother if she could take her to get a smoothie as
soon as her plane lands. My mother said, “Of course Gracie, we will go to
Jambalaya Juice right away.” For those of you who don’t know, it’s just called
Jamba Juice. Stay tuned for a wacky week.
P.S . I just want to tell all of you how much I appreciate
all of your emails and all of the comments that you leave on the blog. To be
honest, I’m having a bit of an emotional crisis because I want to respond to
every email and every comment because you know I never run out of things to say
but unfortunately with ALS, my voice may run out of steam so I have to protect
it a little bit… So, I cannot respond to every email and every comment. Don’t
take it personally. It’s a “me” thing. However, keep the comments coming and
keep the emails coming because I read every single one and it makes my day to
hear from you. Is it weird that I consider all of you my friends?
