Upside-down cake

An upside-down cake is a cake that is baked "upside-down" in a single pan, 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.

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Upside-down cake

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

Recipe

An upside-down cake is a cake that is baked "upside-down" in a single pan—usually a skillet—with the eventual toppings placed in 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. Flipping the cake before serving puts the right-side up, so that the ingredients that were in the bottom of the pan are the toppings.^[1] 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]

History

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]

Gallery

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  American pineapple upside-down cake
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  Pear upside-down cake
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  Crushed pineapple
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  Apricot and cornmeal
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  Tarte tatin

See also

• Pineapple cake

References

1. Clark, Melissa (August 3, 2022). "Take Your Cakes to the Upside Down". Pittsburgh Press. pp. D1, D8. Retrieved August 3, 2022 – via nytimes.com.
2. "Pineapple upside-down cake". BBC. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
3. "Pineapple Upside-Down Cornmeal Cake". Food Network. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
4. Sawyer, Marion F. (February 13, 1934). "Cottage Pudding Proves Equally at Home in an Apartment or Fine Mansion". Detroit Free Press. p. 10. Retrieved August 3, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Prune Upside-Down Cake". San Francisco Chronicle. January 21, 1923. p. 6. Retrieved August 3, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "a new-idea coffee cake: Sunsweet Prune Upside-down Cake (advertisement)". Pittsburgh Press. February 22, 1923. p. 20. Retrieved August 3, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Tarte Tatin French Upside-Down Pie". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. January 9, 1977. p. 16D. Retrieved August 3, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Household Department: Pineapple Upside Down Cake". Boston Globe. December 21, 1925. p. 17. Retrieved August 3, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Who Invented Pineapple Upside Down Cake?". Scrantonian Tribune. Scranton, Pennsylvania. January 23, 1983. p. F12. Retrieved August 3, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Pineapple Upside DownCake Recipe and History". What's Cooking America. May 2015. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
11. York, Patricia S. "Upside-Down Skillet Cakes". Southern Living. Retrieved January 20, 2022.

External links

• Media related to Upside down cakes at Wikimedia Commons