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Pineapple cranberry upside down cake

  • 1 cup honey
  • can pineapple, opened with juice reserved
  • 1/2 cup dried unsweetened cranberries
  • 1/2 cup dried shredded coconut
  • 1.5 cups flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2/3 cup butter
  • 1 egg
  • milk or water
  • 1/2 tsp salt

I made this on a whim for our solstice dinner. It’s fantastically delicious and takes about 15 minutes to make.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Melt 1/3 cup butter and mix in 1/2 cup honey. Pour this into the bottom of a springform pan. (A 9xwhatever will work too). Strain the pineapple from the can, but save the juice. Lay the pineapple in the melted butter/honey mixture. Sprinkle on the cranberries and coconut.

In a mixing bowl, cream the remaining 1/3 cup of butter and 1/2 cup of honey. Add the egg and vanilla. Add a little less than a cup of liquid (all the pineapple juice, and then milk/water until almost a cup). Stir well and add baking soda, salt and flour. Pour this mixture into the pan.

Cook for 20-40 minutes…until a toothpick in the center comes out clean.