Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

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By Becky Krystal

This looks similar the classic, American pineapple upside-down barroom you know, but it's made with agave nectar alternatively of sugar. A speedy hunt forother pineapple upside-down barroom recipes shows they person importantly much grams of sweetener than this one, and yet the agave nectar mentation tastes saccharine capable to us.

In investigating the contestant's look arsenic it appears connected the BBC website, we recovered it did not make capable batter to screen the bottommost of the cookware and the fruit, truthful we doubled the barroom batter amounts. This makes for a precise rich, moist dessert. The archetypal look included a maple custard sauce, which we tried; it's bully but could beryllium gilding the lily here, truthful consciousness escaped to opt out.

Adapted from a look by "The Great British Bake Off" contestant Alvin Magallanes.

Ingredients

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Servings: 20-24

For the cake

  • Baking spray
  • Scant 1 1/4 cups (400 grams) positive 4 tablespoons agave nectar, divided
  • 8 pineapple rings (from 1 20-ounce tin of pineapple slices successful juice), drained and patted dry
  • 8 caller cherries, pitted (may substitute frozen)
  • 4 3/4 cups (595 grams) all-purpose flour
  • 2 tablespoons positive 2 teaspoons (30 grams) baking powder
  • 1/2 spoon good salt
  • 5 sticks positive 2 tablespoons (595 grams/21 ounces) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
  • 10 ample eggs, lightly beaten

For the optional sauce

  • 2 1/2 cups (600 milliliters) full milk
  • 1/4 cupful (60 milliliters) maple syrup
  • 1 spoon vanilla extract
  • Scrapings from 1 vanilla legume (pod reserved, if desired, for different use, specified arsenic vanilla sugar)
  • 6 ample ovum yolks
  • 1 tablespoonful positive 1 spoon (15 grams) cornstarch

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 24, not including sauce)

  • Calories

    360

  • Fat

    22 g

  • Saturated Fat

    13 g

  • Carbohydrates

    35 g

  • Sodium

    85 mg

  • Cholesterol

    130 mg

  • Protein

    5 g

  • Sugar

    14 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from a look by "The Great British Bake Off" contestant Alvin Magallanes.

Tested by Becky Krystal.

Published July 22, 2016

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Updated March 15, 2026

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