Orange-Cardamom Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Recipe

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Orange-Cardamom Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
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Ingredients
16
Count
Nutrition
453
Calories
Total time
50
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. For this recipe, we perfer to use a 9-inch pan with the sides that are at least 2-inches high. Alternatively, a 1-inch safe oven-safe skillet (either cast iron or stainless steel) can be used not only to cook the pineapple, but to bake th cake as well. If using a skillet instead of a cake pan, cool the juices directly in the skillet while making the batter; it's OK if the skillet is still warm when the batter is added. For a cake with a light, tender crumb, it is important to cream the butter and sugar well and to have the eggs at room temperature.
  2. Lightly spray 9-inch round, 2-inch deep cake pan with nonstick cooking spray, set aside.
  3. FOR THE PINEAPPE TOPPING:.
  4. Combine pineapple, brown sugar, and orange zest in 10-inch skillet; cool over medium heat, stirring occasionally during first 5 minutes, until pineapple is translucent and has light brown hue, 15-18 minutes. Empty fruit and juices into mesh strainer or colander, set over medium bowl. Return juices to skillet, leaving pineapple in strainer, (you should have about 2 cups cooked fruit). Add orange juice to skillet and simmer juices over medium heat until thickened, beginning to darken, and mixture forms large bubbles, 6-8 minutes, adding any more juices released by fruit to skillet after 4 minutes. Off heat, whisk in butter and vanilla; pour caramel mixture into prepared cake pan. Set aside while preparing cake. (Pineapple will continue to release liquid as it sits: do not add this liquid to already-reduced juice mixture.).
  5. FOR THE CAKE:
  6. Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 350°F Whisk flour, baking powder, salt, and cardamom in medium bowl; set aside.
  7. In bowl of standing mixer fitted with flat beater, cream butter and sugar at medium-high speed until light and fluffy. 3-4 minutes. Reduce speed to medium, add vanilla, and beat to combine; one at a time, add whole eggs, the egg white, beating well, and scraping down bowl after each addition. Reduce speed to low; add about 1/3 of the flour mixture and beat until incorporated. Add half of milk and beat until incorporated; repeat, adding half of remaining flour mixture and remaining milk, and finish with remaining flour. Give final stir with rubber spatula, scraping bottom and sides of bowl to ensure that batter is combined. Batter will be thick.
  8. TO BAKE:.
  9. Working quickly, distribute cooked pineapple in cake pan in even layer, gently pressing fruit into caramel. Using rubber spatula, drop mounds of batter over fruit, then spread batter over fruit and to sides of pan. Tap lightly against work surface to release any air bubbles. Bake until cake is golden brown and toothpick into center comes out clean, 45-50 minutes. Cool 10 minutes on wire rack, then place inverted serving platter over cake pan. Invert cake pan and platter together; life off cake pan. Cool to room temperature, about 2 hours. Then cut into pieces and serve.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 453.13 Kcal (1897 kJ)
Calories from fat 124.65 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 13.85g 21%
Cholesterol 70.78mg 24%
Sodium 147.01mg 6%
Potassium 389.54mg 8%
Total Carbs 81.27g 27%
Sugars 62.35g 249%
Dietary Fiber 2.5g 10%
Protein 5.6g 11%
Vitamin C 20.3mg 34%
Vitamin A 0.2mg 5%
Iron 1.4mg 8%
Calcium 94.7mg 9%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 164.96 Kcal (691 kJ)
Calories from fat 45.38 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 5.04g 21%
Cholesterol 25.77mg 24%
Sodium 53.52mg 6%
Potassium 141.81mg 8%
Total Carbs 29.59g 27%
Sugars 22.7g 249%
Dietary Fiber 0.91g 10%
Protein 2.04g 11%
Vitamin C 7.4mg 34%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 5%
Iron 0.5mg 8%
Calcium 34.5mg 9%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 9.7
    Points
  • 13
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low sodium

Bad Points

  • High in Sugar

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