Pin This recipe is slightly fansy-pansy. It calls for demerara sugar. I bought it just for this purpose, just so that I won’t screw up a second time. Sidenote: Is demarara sugar available in India? If you know if a place, do leave a comment. Thanks! Other cake recipes you may wish to try: Christmas fruit cake Orange cake with toffee sauce Pineapple cupcake recipe Flourless almond coconut cake Ingredients: 1 cup regular all purpose flour or maida 8 slices canned pineapple, drained 150gm / 3/4 cup butter at room temperature 3/4 cup demerara sugar 1 tsp baking powder 3 eggs, separated 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 cup powdered sugar, sifted 1/2 cup milk (low fat works too) Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 190C / 275 F
  2. Mix 1/4 cup butter with the demerara sugar and spread it at the bottom of a greased 9″ cake pan. Pin
  3. Arrange a layer of pineapple slices over it, slicing them to adjust and fill the gaps. Pin
  4. Sift the flour and baking powder. Keep aside.
  5. Beat the egg yolks in a small bowl and add in the rest of the butter (1/2 cup) and the vanilla essence. Combine until smooth.
  6. Whisk the egg whites until soft peaks form. Don’t overdo this otherwise the egg whites will turn dry. Pin
  7. Fold in the sifted sugar, one tablespoon at a time. Then fold in the egg yolk mixture. Pin
  8. And finally the flour mixture, 1/4 cup at a time. Be gentle and only mix until the flour disappears into the batter. Don’t over-mix. Pin
  9. Pour the batter over the pineapple slices and bake for about 30-40 mins. Pin 10. Make sure that you test the cake and not go by time because the first time I did that, I ended up under-baking the cake by about 10 mins or so. This one below is done perfectly! Pin The butter-sugar mixture will caramelize and come up a bit at the sides. Its yum! Pin Unfortunately, I don’t have a great final picture of the finished cake. I had to pack this in foil and take it for a party so no pics of slices.Pin It’s definitely tasty but I am not satisfied with it. I think pineapple, butter, sugar and flour can make something better – so the search is still on. Leave a comment if you have a great pineapple upside down cake recipe on your site!