Grandma’s Skillet Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
🕒 Recipe Overview
- Prep Time: 20 minutes 🔪
- Cook Time: 40-45 minutes ⏰
- Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes 🍍
- Servings: 8-10 generous slices 🍽️
🛒 Ingredients You’ll Need
Simple baking essentials and retro pantry staples come together for this gorgeous treat:
For the Caramelized Fruit Layer:
- 🧈 ½ cup (1 stick) Unsalted butter
- 🟤 1 cup Light brown sugar, packed
- 🍍 1 can (20 oz) Pineapple slices in juice (reserve the juice for the cake batter!)
- 🍒 10-12 Maraschino cherries, stems removed
For the Fluffy Vanilla Cake:
- 🌾 1 ½ cups All-purpose flour
- 🟡 1 ½ tsp Baking powder
- 🧂 ¼ tsp Salt
- 🧈 ½ cup (1 stick) Unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- ⚪ 1 cup Granulated white sugar
- 🥚 2 large Eggs
- 🧪 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 🧃 ½ cup Pineapple juice (reserved from the canned slices)
