Pineapple Upside Down Cake

We have this routine Friday evenings movie time at my BFF's place, its become so important for us that we try to avoid any other plans that might come up on that day. Five of us usually (sometimes the count increases to even ten) get together for the awesomest tea ever..So its become a ritual to have some appetizer or munchies for this evening..I get inspired on these days to make a dish as I have the guinea pigs ready for my experiment and thus this cake was made on Friday. We had to bid farewell to two families that friday and so it was even more special and had to be done right :) My oven and my ingredients didn't let me down this time and the output as you can see was as expected !! Below is the recipe for you to boost your confidence in baking.

Preparation Time: 15 mins
Makes about 15 slices and many gulped even before the actual dessert time.
Cooking Time: 1hr and 10 mins

Ingredients:

Butter - 1/2 cup or 1stick of butter
1 and 1/3 cups of Brown sugar
Pineapple slices - I got a tin from the grocery store here you can also try to use fresh pineapple - 9 slices
2 and 2/3 cups of All purpose flour
2 cups Sugar
2/3 cup Shortening
3 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Salt
1 and 1/3 cups Milk
2 Eggs

Procedure:

• Heat oven to 350 F. I used a Rectangle deep dish baking pan (you can use even a square pan), Melt butter and spread it on the pan. Sprinkle brown sugar evenly over the butter. Arrange pineapple slices over brown sugar.
• In a bowl, beat the remaining ingredients with electric mixer if you have or a hand mixer or even a beater for about a minute scraping the bowl constantly. Beat even faster for about 3 minutes. The batter should be mixed well and you can pour the batter over the pineapple slices on the baking pan.
• Bake for about 50 - 55 minutes or till toothpick when inserted comes out clean. Immediately place a heatproof plate of about the same size as the pan over it, turn plate and pan over. Leave pan over cake a few minutes so that even the brown sugar mixture is on top, remove pan. The cake would be upside down now, the pineapple slices on top. 

You don't need to serve the cake. People will be running towards the cake because of the aroma once you take it out. Yummmmm !!!

Notes :

•  The number of pineapple slices on the cake will change depending on the size of the pan.
• Make sure not to let the cake get over burnt. If you know about the heat in the oven, chk within 40 -45 minutes too.