Grandma’s Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup butter
• 0.5 cup brown sugar, packed
• 8 pineapple rings
• 8 pecan halves
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 0.25 teaspoon salt
• 2/3 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 0.25 cup pineapple juice

Steps

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Melt butter in a 9-inch cast iron skillet over medium heat. Stir in brown sugar; heat until bubbly. Remove from heat. Arrange pineapple rings and pecans on top.
3. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl; repeat sifting twice more.
4. Beat white sugar and eggs together in a bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
5. Alternate folding flour mixture and pineapple juice into egg mixture in 3 batches, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Pour over pineapple slices.
6. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Let cool in the skillet for 5 minutes. Invert carefully onto a serving platter.