Pineapple Upside Down Cupcakes
Recipe Courtesy of 2016 Allrecipes.com
Servings 24 Cupcakes
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- ½ cup butter melted
- 1 ½ cups brown sugar
- 24 maraschino cherries
- 1 20 ounce can crushed pineapple
- 1 18.25 ounce package pineapple cake mix (such as Duncan Hines® Pineapple Supreme)
- 3 eggs
- 1 ⅓ cups pineapple juice
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar for dusting or as needed
Instructions
- Move an oven rack into the middle of the oven. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Spray 24 muffin cups with cooking spray.
- Line a work surface with waxed paper.
- Spoon 1 teaspoon melted butter into the bottom of each sprayed muffin cup.
- Spoon 1 tablespoon brown sugar in each muffin cup.
- Press a maraschino cherry into the center of the brown sugar in each muffin cup.
- Spoon a heaping tablespoon of crushed pineapple over the cherry and compact it with the back of a spoon into an even layer.
- Mix pineapple cake mix, eggs, pineapple juice, and vegetable oil in a large bowl with electric mixer on low speed until moistened, about 30 seconds. Turn mixer speed to medium and mix for 2 minutes.
- Pour pineapple cake batter into the muffin cups, filling them to the top; do not overfill.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, about 20 minutes.
- Allow cupcakes to cool at least 5 minutes before inverting muffin cups onto the waxed paper to release. Serve with pineapple and cherry sides up. Sprinkle cupcakes lightly with confectioners' sugar.
