Upside-down cake

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Upside-down cake
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Pineapple upside-down cake
Type Cake
Main ingredients Batter, fruit (apples, pineapples, cherries)

An upside-down cake is a cake that is baked "upside-down" in a single pan, usually a skillet, with its toppings at the bottom of the pan. When removed from the oven, the finished upside-down preparation is flipped over and de-panned onto a serving plate, thus "righting" it, and serving it right-side up. [1]

Contents

Usually chopped or sliced fruits — such as apples, cherries, peaches, or pineapples [2] [3] — butter, and sugar are placed on the bottom of the pan before the batter is poured in, so that they form a baked-on topping after the cake is inverted. A simple cottage pudding cake batter may be used. [4]

The first American recipes for upside-down cake, using prunes, appeared in newspapers in 1923. [5] [6]

Traditional upside-down preparations include the American pineapple upside-down cake, the French Tarte Tatin, [7] and the Brazilian or Portuguese bolo de ananás (also known as bolo de abacaxi ). In the United States, pineapple upside down cakes became popular in the mid-1920s after Dole Pineapple Company sponsored a contest for pineapple recipes. [8] [9] They received over 2,500 various submissions for the inverted pineapple cake and ran an advertisement about it, which increased the cake's popularity. [10] [11]

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