Pineapple Upside-Down Rum Cake
Angie McGowan
Updated Jul 21, 2023
It’s your favorite dessert with a tropical twist! Pineapple upside-down cake is good, but pineapple upside-down cake with pineapple rum infused is so much better. Everything else you love about this classic dessert remains the same—juicy pineapple rings are baked in a caramel-like brown sugar sauce with a buttery yellow cake on top. Once the cake turns a decadent golden brown color, turn the maraschino cherry-studded dessert upside down, and brush the hot-from-the-oven cake with rum. Serve with whipped cream for a tropical treat that’ll whisk you away to paradise!
Pineapple Upside-Down Rum Cake
- Prep Time 20 min
- Total 1 hr 35 min
- Servings 12
- Ingredients 8
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 3 cans (8 oz each) pineapple slices in juice, drained, juice reserved
- 12 maraschino cherries without stems, drained
- 1 box Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ Yellow Cake Mix
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup pineapple rum
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. In 13x9-inch (3-quart) glass baking dish, melt butter in oven. Sprinkle brown sugar evenly over butter. Arrange pineapple slices in 4 rows by 3 rows over brown sugar. Place 1 cherry in center of each pineapple slice.
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Step2In large bowl, beat cake mix, oil, eggs and 1 cup reserved pineapple juice with electric mixer on medium speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Pour batter over pineapple and cherries.
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Step3Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Immediately run knife around edges of baking dish to loosen cake. Cool 5 minutes.
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Step4Place heatproof serving plate upside down onto baking dish; turn plate and dish over. Remove dish. Brush rum over warm cake. Cool 30 minutes. Serve warm or cool. Store loosely covered at room temperature.
Nutrition
350
Calories
12g
Total Fat
3g
Protein
55g
Total Carbohydrate
40g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 350
- Calories from Fat
- 110
- Total Fat
- 12g
- 18%
- Saturated Fat
- 4g
- 21%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 55mg
- 19%
- Sodium
- 290mg
- 12%
- Potassium
- 90mg
- 3%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 55g
- 18%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 40g
- Protein
- 3g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 4%
- 4%
- Vitamin C
- 4%
- 4%
- Calcium
- 10%
- 10%
- Iron
- 6%
- 6%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 0 Fat;Tips from the Betty Crocker Kitchens
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