Actually just looked this one up. surprisingly its from the United States in the 30's Jim Dole had a contest for pineapple cake as he over planted his pineapple crop and canned 90% of it. From that he received over 2500 pineapple cake recipes. Pineapple Upside Down were some of them; then Jim Dole became Dole's
I have been looking all over for this... I am nott 100% sure but when I searched it I got the recipe from an Australia and NZ recipe site? So maybe it is... I hope so as I am cooking it and saying its Australian :)
Pineapple upside-down cake was created for a cooking contest in 1925 sponsored by the Dole Pineapple Company.
sir jacob turner, look him up he is a good cook, hes appeared on ready steady cook once and lost to chris caldicott, but furthered his education in cooking and made this masterpiece.
Indigenous America
It is called an upside down cake because the topping is on the bottom of the cake as it bakes. For instance, when making a pineapple upside down cake, you put the pineapple slices in first, the strudel and then the cake batter. When it is finished, you flip it out with the bottom of the cake on top.
you can make a lot of desserst in cast iron cookware. so of the better desserts you can make are peach cobbler, pineapple upsidedown cake, raspberry-rhubarb tart, and a blueberry pie.
An upsidedown cake starts with U.
sliced fresh pineapple
pineapple cake, or pineapple turnovers
You take a pineapple, and flip it upside down
Someone wanting to make a pineapple upside down cake.
does pineapple upside-down cake need to be refrigerated?
Pineapple Upside-Down Cake - 2008 was released on: USA: 12 November 2008 (internet)
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There is nothing special about pineapple upside down cake. I've used pie plates for it. Yes, there are 10 round cake pans available.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/pineapple-upside-down-cornmeal-cake-recipe/index.html