Pineapple Upside Down Cupcakes
Ingredients
- Servings: 2
- cooking spray
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1 1/2 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 1/3 cups pineapple juice
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar for dusting, or as needed
Recipe
Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins
Ready Time: 45 mins
- 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.
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