Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Name: Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
Yield: One 9-inch cake, serving 8 to 10
Ingredients: 1 , medium fresh pineapple (about 4 pounds), prepared according to illustrations below (about 4 cups prepared fruit); 1 cup firmly packed, light brown sugar (7 ounces; 198 grams); 3 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 1/2 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1 1/2 cups, unbleached all-purpose flour (7 1/2 ounces; 213 grams); 1 1/2 teaspoons, baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter (1 stick), softened but still cool; 3/4 cup, granulated sugar (5 1/4 ounces; 149 grams); 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 2 , large eggs at room temperature; 1 , egg white at room temperature; 1/3 cup, whole milk at room temperature

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 2004

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This simple skillet dessert deserves better than bland flavors and soggy cake.

SERVESOne 9-inch cake, serving 8 to 10

TIME2 hours, plus 2 hours cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For our pineapple upside-down cake recipe, we cooked a whole pineapple alone with light brown sugar, which allowed the fruit to caramelize nicely and become infused with syrup. Later, when we strained out and reserved the fruit, we could th...

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