Pineapple Every Which Way Cake

As I said in my previous post, my mom's birthday was yesterday. 

(HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!)

Anyway, I told her she could have anything she wanted. At first she was just like,

"Oh, sweetie, I'll love whatever you make me."

That didn't give me a lot to build off of.

Finally I got her to give me something. A pineapple upside down cake.

After searching through COUNTLESS cookbooks (okay, 23), I couldn't find ONE pineapple upside down cake.

So I turned to the Internet and found a decent one. 

I advise you read this entire post before making this.

Here's what you need.

1/4 cup butter

2/3 cup brown sugar

9 slices pineapple in juice

9 maraschino cherries

1 1/3 cup flour

1 cup granulated sugar

1/3 cup shortening

1 1/2 tsps baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup milk

1 egg

I was really excited to be making this for my mom. I had a perfect vision in my head of a pristine pineapple upside down cake that could have been in a cooking magazine. The pineapple upside down cake in my head was gorgeous. 

My pineapple upside down cake was not this cake.

My pineapple upside down cake was the king of all disappointment. I cried for this cake.

Anyway, might as well get on with this thing.

First, get yourself a 9 x 13 inch pan and put the butter in it. Preheat your oven to 350mand melt the butter in there.

Pull the pan out once butter is melted and sprinkle the brown sugar all over the pan.

 Then, take your pineapple slices and arrange them in rows in the pan. 

Now for the batter.

Beat with electric mixer the rest of the ingredients in a bowl for three minutes, scraping the bowl the whole time. 

Pour the batter over the pineapples and cherries and pop the whole thing in the oven for 50-55 minutes. 

I did this and I was ecstatic because so far everything had gone great! I set the timer, turned around, and just as I was patting myself on the back, saw the shortening on the counter. 

Unopened.

 I crumbled to the floor. I shook my fist in the air.

I got so angry with myself that I yanked the stupid thing out of the oven and angrily threw the whole thing back into the bowl.

I threw the required shortening into the mess and angrily smashed everything up.

I poured it back into the pan, threw it into the oven, and cooked it for 50 minutes.

This is what came out.

I will say, it looks like something that came out of a dogs stomach, but it tasted darn good. Maybe a real pineapple upside down cake would have tasted better, but I've never had one, so I can't say.

Happy birthday, mom!