Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 2004

This simple skillet dessert deserves better than bland flavors and soggy cake.

SERVES One 9-inch cake, serving 8 to 10

TIME 2 hours, plus 2 hours cooling

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For our pineapple upside-down cake recipe, we cooked a whole pineapple alone with light brown sugar, which allowed the fruit to caramelize nicely and become infused with syrup. Later, when we strained out and reserved the fruit, we could th...

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