Grandma's Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Ingredients

• 0.33 cups butter
• 0.5 cups brown sugar , packed
• 8 pineapples rings
• 8 pecans halves
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 0.25 teaspoons salt
• 0.67 cups white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 0.25 cups pineapple juice

Instructions

1. 1

   Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

2. 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. 3

   Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl; repeat sifting twice more.

4. 4

   Beat white sugar and eggs together in a bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.

5. 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. 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.