Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Let's Make a Pineapple Upside Down Cake!

This is how I make my famous "Witness Protection Vegan Gluten-Free Pineapple Peach Applesauce India-Spice Upside Down Cake." Laura came up with the name for this because after three years of dating I finally made this for her (I wasn't hiding it, I just never saw the chance to make it).


1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. In a cast-iron skillet, melt 2 TBSP of Coconut Butter, 
4-TBSP of Earth Balance Organic Butter. 
3. Pour the excess butter into a small mixing bowl, allowing the butter to cover the skillet. 
4. Add 1/2 cup of brown sugar to the skillet.


5. Cut up two peaches and a medium pineapple into small, pieces. 
Do not used canned fruit. It sucks! 
6. Also, I would advise doing this as your very first step, before the melting of butter.
7. Cover the brown sugar with 2 peaches and 3/4 of a medium pineapple, diced up.
 


8. In a large mixing bowl, add 1.5 cups of All Purpose Gluten-Free Flour, 
1/4 TSP Sea Salt, 1 TSP of Baking Powder, 1/2TSP Baking Soda. 
9. Mix well. 


10. In the small mixing bowl where the excess butter went, add 1/2 cup Coconut Sugar.


11. Add 2/3 cup of unsweetened applesauce. 


12. Add 1/3 cup of Almond or Coconut Milk to the Sugar/Butter mix. 
13. Mix well! 


14. Add 1/2 TSP of ground Cinnamon, 1/4 TSP of ground Ginger, 1/4 TSP ground Cardamon, 1/4 TSP ground Coriander to the dry ingredients. 
15. Mix well.
16. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir with a TBSP until blended.
 


17. Pour the batter over the fruit in the skillet. 
18. Pat it down with your large spoon.


19. Bake the cake at 375 degrees on the middle rack, for 30 minutes.
20. (Note, as the fruit gets HOT it will bubble on sides, so you may want to put some aluminum foil under the skillet)
 


21. Let the cake cool for 20 minutes.
22. Put a heavy, large plate on top of the cake, quickly flip the cake and put the plate on the counter/table so it doesn't fall to the floor or out of your hands.
23. Gently lift the skillet up, and your cake will look like this. 

YUM!

Possible Alterations:
Note that you can substitute fresh cherries, all peaches, or all pineapple, or a mixture of all either of the three for the fruit. 

You can also dust the cake, after it has been flipped over, with shredded coconut.

Highly recommended that you eat this cake warmed up with a scoop of coconut ice cream.


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