Spiced Rum Pineapple Upside Down Cake
- 1 (18 1/4 ounce) box betty crocker supermoist French vanilla cake mix
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup Meyer's dark rum
- 1 (20 ounce) can crushed pineapple in juice, juices reserved
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. You can use either a 13X9 pan or two 9" cake pans for this, spray sides of baking dish(es) with cooking spray.
- Drain pineapple, reserving all juice. Press it down into the strainer to remove excess juice in the pineapple. Measure out 3/4 cup of juice and discard the remaining juice or save for other purpose.
- Cut butter into pieces and place into baking dish(es), sprinkle brown sugar on top of butter - divide both butter & brown sugar into halves if you are making it in two pans rather than one.
- Place in oven while preheating until butter melts completely, then remove from oven, stir in the drained crushed pineapple. Set aside.
- In a bowl mix together eggs, oil, rum and the 3/4 of pineapple juice saved from the can until well blended.
- Add in the box of dry cake mix to this liquid mixture and mix on low for 30 seconds to combine, then on medium for two minutes.
- Pour evenly over the pineapple, butter, sugar mix in baking dish.
- Bake for 30-36 minutes, test for doneness with toothpick.
vanilla cake, butter, brown sugar, rum, pineapple, vegetable oil, eggs
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/spiced-rum-pineapple-upside-down-cake-361075 (may not work)