This easy dessert is perfect for picnics and cookouts.
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time30 minutesmins
Total Time1 hourhr
Course: Dessert
Servings: 12people
Author: Shelley King
Cost: $6
Ingredients
1/4cupbutter or margarine
1cuppacked brown sugar
120 oz can pineapple slices in juice, drained, juice reserved
16 ozjar maraschino cherries without stems, drained
1boxyellow cake mix
1TBSPvegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
Instructions
Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan).
In 13x9-inch pan, melt butter in oven.
Sprinkle brown sugar evenly over butter.
Arrange pineapple slices on brown sugar, next place a cherry in center of each pineapple slice, and arrange remaining cherries around slices; press gently into brown sugar.
Add enough water to reserved pineapple juice to measure 1 cup.
Make cake batter as directed on box, substituting pineapple juice mixture for the water.
Pour batter over pineapple and cherries.
Bake 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Immediately run knife around side of pan to loosen cake.
Place heatproof serving plate upside down onto pan; turn plate and pan over.
Leave pan over cake 5 minutes so brown sugar topping can drizzle over cake; remove pan. Cool 30 minutes.