3 tb Butter, softened
4 tb Butter, softened
1/3 c Light brown sugar, firmly
-packed
1 cn 8oz pineapple slices,
-drained
-and patted dry on paper
-towels
1/2 c Sugar
1 lg Egg, room temperature
1/2 c Light molasses
1/2 c Milk
1 1/2 c All-purpose flour
1 ts Baking soda
1 ts Cinnamon
1 ts Ground ginger
1/4 ts Salt
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Place 3 T butter in a 9″x11-1/2″x2″ cake
pan. Place in oven until melted. Remove pan from oven, swirl butter
to coat pan, and immediately sprinkle brown sugar evenly over bottom
of pan. Arrange pineapple slices in single layer over the brown
sugar. Beat together 4 T butter and sugar in medium-size bowl with an
electric mixer on high-speed until creamy. Beat in egg, molasses and
milk until well blended. Stir together flour, baking soda, cinnamon,
ginger and salt in a medium-sized bowl. Beat into batter on
low-speed, mixing until incorporated. Spoon evenly over the pineapple
in baking pan. Bake for 60 minutes or until cake tester inserted near
center comes out clean. Remove from oven and immediately turn out
onto serving platter. Garnish the center of each pineapple ring with
a maraschino cherry half.
Yields
1 Cake