Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

An afternoon tea with some girlfriends, gossips with your favorites neighbors.
A slice of Pineapple Upside-down and a cup of feshly brewed coffee is just blissfulness!

Olivia, is my best fan ever. She is the first who tried, first who comment and
hopefully the last to say NO..haha

Pineapple upside down cake is way before my time. This is a very old technique probably started centuries ago. If you are wondering what is Pineapple Upside-down cake, here are some info.

*The first recorded recipe for Pineapple Upside Down Cake According to John Mariani's ( The Dictionary of American Food and Drink , Revised Edition, 1994), "The first mention in print of such a cake was in 1930, and was so listed in the 1936 Sears Roebuck catalog, but the cake is somewhat older." In Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads (1995), Sylvia Lovegren traces pineapple upside-down cake to a 1924 Seattle fund-raising cookbook...While rooting around in old women's magazines I found a Gold Medal Flour ad with a full-page, four-color picture of Pineapple Upside-Down Cake--a round cake with six slices of pineapple, candied red cherries, and a brown sugar glaze.

*information courtesy of http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/PineappleUpsideDownCake/index.htm

Preparing for the set, shooting for blogspot.

Ingredients

120g Flour

1/4 teaspoon Soda Bicarbonate

2 Eggs

100g Canola Oil

110g Sugar

I Can of Pineapple (5slices)

50ml Pineapple Syrup 

5 Preserved Cherry (halves)

Directions

1.Pre heat oven at 175 degree. Prepare the base of the baking pan with some sprinkles of sugar
   and arrange the pineapple (as shown from my photograph)
2. Sift flour and soda bicarbonate in a mixing bowl.
3. Combine Canola oil, sugar, eggs, pineapple syrup in a mixing bowl, beat till dissolves.
4. Add in flour bit by bit, until well blended.

5. Transfer the batter into the baking pan that has pineapple slices at the bottom.

6. Bake for 25 minutes or test it with a skewer, when the skewer comes out clean that means
    your cake is done.

My kids love it, I'm sure no one could resist this since it was made from canola and not butter... a healthy snack!

I personally like the spongy feel of this cake.