Spiced Pineapple Upside Down Cake Recipe

This Cranberry Spiced Pineapple Upside-Down Cake dessert showcases beautiful cranberries, and pineapples making it perfect for a Holiday Dessert. And, let me tell you, after tasting it, I have used full willpower against eating the entire platter. It’s hard for me to resist a cake with sour cream in the batter.

Spiced Pineapple Upside Down Cake

I love that the whole house smells like Christmas when I bake this. The cloves and cinnamon are filling the house up with such a wonderful aroma.

Are you looking for holiday dessert recipes? Check out some of my other posts, like…

• Cherry and Cream Cheese Crescent Roll Ring Danish – perfect for breakfast
• An Italian Nut Roll Recipe 
• Christmas Cranberry Cake 

Ingredients

• brown sugar packed
• butter unsalted
• sliced pineapples drained can
• fresh cranberries or frozen

The Cake Portion

• unsalted butter softened
• sugar
• applesauce
• eggs
• vanilla extract
• all-purpose flour
•  baking powder
• salt
•  ground cinnamon
• ground cloves
• ground ginger
• sour cream
•  fresh cranberries or frozen

How to Make an Upside Down Pineapple and Cranberry Cake

• Cream the butter, and sugar together until they are well mixed
• Add the applesauce, and mix that in too!
• Add the eggs, whisking it all together
• Whisk the vanilla in
• In a separate bowl, start mixing the dry ingredients – flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger
• Place sour cream into a small bowl
• Start adding the creamed sugar/butter mixture into the flour mixture, alternating with the sour cream – Mixing it all together with each addition
• Fold in the fresh cranberries
• Pour the cake batter over the caramel/pineapple layer
• Bake for 50-60 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean
• Let the cake cool for about 10 minutes
• Invert the cake onto your serving platter
• Serve alone, or add whipped cream or ice cream!

Enough about my house smelling yummy, let’s get onto the recipe so you can experience the smells and tastes of this delicious Cranberry and Pineapple Upside Down Cake.

Here’s the recipe for the Cranberry Cake

Cranberry Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Delicious spices fill this holiday pineapple upside-down cake.

5 from 1 vote

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Prep Time: 30 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour hour

Servings: 10

Calories: 402cal

Author: Melissa

Cost: $10

Ingredients

Bottom Layer

• 1 cup brown sugar packed
• ½ cup butter unsalted
• 1 20 oz. sliced pineapples drained can
• 1 cup fresh cranberries or frozen

The Cake Portion

• ½ cup of unsalted butter softened
• 1 &1/4 cup of sugar
• ½ cup of applesauce
• 2 eggs
• 1 t vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 t baking powder
• 1 t salt
• 1 t ground cinnamon
• ½ t of ground cloves
• ½ t ground ginger
• ¾ cup sour cream
• 1 cup fresh cranberries or frozen

Instructions

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees
• Grease a 9×13 baking pan
• We are starting off with the caramel portion. (bottom layer)
• In a saucepan over medium heat – Heat the 1/2 cup of butter until melted, and add brown sugar
• Stir together and cook for a couple of minutes
• Pour the caramel mixture into the greased pan
• Place your pineapple slices into the caramel mixture – I fit about 9 slices into my pan – rows of 3 across, and down
• Place a cranberry in the center of each slice
• Spread the rest of the cranberries in-between the pineapple slices, and the edge of the pan

Onto the Cake portion

• Cream the butter, and sugar together until they are well mixed
• Add the applesauce, and mix that in too!
• Add the eggs, whisking it all together
• Whisk the vanilla in
• In a separate bowl, start mixing the dry ingredients – flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger
• Place sour cream into a small bowl
• Start adding the creamed sugar/butter mixture into the flour mixture, alternating with the sour cream – Mixing it all together with each addition
• Fold in the fresh cranberries
• Pour the cake batter over the caramel/pineapple layer
• Bake for 50-60 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean
• Let the cake cool for about 10 minutes
• Invert the cake onto your serving platter
• Serve alone, or add whipped cream or ice cream!
• Yummy

Notes

nutrition facts are only an estimate 

Nutrition

Calories: 402cal | Carbohydrates: 46g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 23g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 92mg | Sodium: 489mg | Potassium: 124mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 24g | Vitamin A: 739IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 102mg | Iron: 2mg

~Melissa – KidFriendlyThingsToDo.com