First Dessert - Pineapple upside down cake

DawnC

Broke down and bought a Dutch Oven oven the weekend, since it has been so chilly around here recently.

Since I don't really cook in Dutch Ovens regularly, I decided with something basic to start with - Pineapple upside down cake.

I cheated, and used pre-mixed yellow cake... ALL ingredients used pictured below:


First things first, melt 1/2 cup of butter, one whole stick:


Once the butter is melted, add in your 1 cup of brown sugar:


Suger is now sprinkled around, time for your pineapple rings and cherries, whatever fits properly in your size Dutchie: (if it is cold out, and the picture taker is in a hurry, your pineapples will look fuzzy like this)



Prep your cake mix, the box of yellow cake, 3 eggs, pineapple juice and water, beat well, and pour over you pineapples:


Wait.

Wait.

@ 325 we let it cook for about 40 min'ish, until it looked like this:


I took a spatula and worked around the edges before flipping over, even though I don't think it was really necessary. Just flip and wiggle:


Whine a little bit about not having your coals evenly distributed, and then eat... tada:

Susan Egglaine

Nice Job!

reelgem

That turned out great! Unbelievable for your first dessert. BTW-Pre mixed cake mix isn't cheating.

DawnC

It isn't????

My mom is old school. If I'm not mixing sugar, flour, and some vanilla... I feel like I am cheating.

Unknown

Did you use the dutch oven cover during cooking?

rockytopsc

DawnC,
Looks good from here. Can't see but did you try it indirect? It will help, my first few things I baked were pretty dark by not going indirect. I've made these mini pineapple upside down cakes in my Lodge:





These were made w/ canned biscuits.

Mike in Abita

That looks fantastic. My favorite cake BTW. Wife doesn't like em so I don't get it often.

You do realize you bought an open can of pineapples. :woohoo:

Looks great. Thanks

DawnC

Ah yes... Had it covered up durig the cook. Didn't take a picture because it looked a little boring.

DawnC

Didn't even think of trying it indirect. Next time I'll try that to even out the cooking temp.

Thanks!!

Dawn

DawnC

LOL... the butter was pre-opened too.

I was getting everything ready and then decided to take some pics. Don't worry, I didn't poison anyone.

Big'un

Great job Dawn! It looks wonderful, and for your first time too. I like the way that it has a "healthy tan" on one side. I wonder if you rotated the DO a couple times during the cook, if that would help.