Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup butter or margarine
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• Sliced pineapple (canned, 8.5 oz, or fresh)
• Marachino Cherries (optional)
• Pecan halves

Batter:

• 1 1/2 cups cake flour, or 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1/3 cup shortening
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla

How to Prepare:
Heat oven to 350°. Melt butter over low heat in round layer cake pan, 9"x1 1/2". Sprinkle brown sugar evenly over butter. Arrange pineapple, whole slice in center, cherries, and pecans on top of the brown sugar mixture.

Measure all cake batter ingredients into large mixing bowl. Blend 1/2 minute on low speed, scraping constantly. Beat 3 minutes at high speed, scrape occasionally. Pour on top of brown sugar/pineapple mixture in cake pan.

Bake 35-45 minutes, till pick inserted in the cake center comes out clean. Immediately invert onto serving plate. Leave cake pan over cake for a few minutes, remove, cool completely.