- 1½ cups All-purpose flour
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1½ tsp Baking powder
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 10 tbsp Unsalted butterroom temperature
- ½ cup Buttermilk
- 3 Egg yolks
- 1 Eggs
- 1 (20 oz) Can chopped pineapplechunks, pineapple juice reserved
- 1 tbsp Vegetable oil
- 1½ tsp Vanilla
- 12 tsp Brown sugarlight
- 12 Cherriesfresh or frozen
- Cooking sprayfor greasing
Pineapple Upside-Down Cupcakes
This Pineapple Upside-Down Cupcakes recipe is a firm favorite in my house! They look amazing, they’re easy to make and most importantly, they taste delicious too! My kids love to help me make these – they place the fruit in each of the cupcake cases so making upside down pineapple cupcakes is a family affair!
It’s very easy to make these pineapple upside down cupcakes too. Start by making a buttermilk cake batter in a stand mixer. To make the fruit layer, sprinkle brown sugar into each of the muffin cups followed by pineapple chunks and cherry. Spoon the batter on top of the fruit and bake in the oven. Once they’re cooked, invert the muffin tray onto a baking sheet and enjoy while still warm from the oven!
To make Pineapple Upside-Down Cupcakes, you will need the following ingredients:
Steps to make Pineapple Upside-Down Cupcakes
1 | Heat the oven and prepare a muffin tray | 5 |
Preheat the oven to 350 °F. Lightly grease a 12 cup muffin tray with cooking spray. | ||
2 | Combine dry ingredients | 2 |
Mix 1½ cups of all-purpose flour, 1 cup of sugar, 1½ teaspoons of baking powder and ¼ teaspoon of salt in the bowl of a stand mixer. | ||
3 | Add butter | 3 |
Add 10 tablespoons of butter to the dry ingredients and using the paddle attachment, beat the mixture on low speed for about 3 minutes. | ||
4 | Combine wet ingredients | 2 |
Whisk ½ a cup of buttermilk, 3 egg yolks, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons of the reserved pineapple juice, 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil and 1½ teaspoons of vanilla together in a separate bowl. | ||
5 | Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients | 3 |
Pour half of the buttermilk mixture to the dry ingredients and beat on medium-low speed for about 2 minutes. Scrape the sides of the bowl down using a spatula and pour in the remaining liquid ingredients. Continue to beat at medium speed for 3 minutes. | ||
6 | Prepare the muffin cups | 2 |
Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of brown sugar into the bottom of each muffin cup. Place three pineapple chunks on top of the sugar around the edges of each muffin cup. Position one cherry in the center of each cup. | ||
7 | Add the batter to the muffin trays | 3 |
Spoon the batter into the muffin trays until each muffin cup is almost completely full. | ||
8 | Bake | 25 |
Bake for 23-25 minutes until the cupcakes are golden brown on top. | ||
9 | Cool | 4 |
Remove muffins from oven and slide a knife around the edge of each cupcake. Cool slightly on a wire rack. | ||
10 | Remove | 1 |
To remove the cupcakes from the muffin tray, lay a baking sheet over the muffin tray and invert the baking sheet and muffin tray so that the cupcakes pop out of the pan. | ||
11 | Serve | |
These muffins are best served warm with a cup of your favorite tea or coffee. | ||
Recipe Reviews
Mine fell apart so easily but they were soft and fluffy..delish.
Can't wait to see more stuff from this website, always the best i've been here since your first recipe!
Mine were also kinda yellow on the inside which as you know,yellow is a happy color and these cupcakes definetly made me and my kids happy :)
Not too sure if they are meant to be kinda sour or if I picked out the wrong pineapple from the batch, either way it was good though.
Great if you serve it with some tea too or even coffe it's literally the perfect breakfast or snack to much on anytime of the year.
I'd gladly get fat from these pineapple cupcakes.
Would go with white sugar instead of brown if you want them to actually be sweet.
Not exactly what I expected but i'll be adding more sugar next time.
With some vanilla icecream it becomes a match made in heaven.
Heaven on Earth made in the shape of a cupcake couldn't ask for more.
Enjoyable and not too hard for a rookie baker like myself to make, 5 stars all the way.
Really cute mini cupcakes I like the way they look and the way they taste.
Going to try this out for dessert after eating the moroccan stuffed chicken for dinner.
Fantastic recipe! loved these upside down cupcakes.
The description wasn't lying they really do taste as good as they look lol.
Very excited to try these they are currently in the oven as I type this out and I'm sooo in love with the smell.
Cherries make it sour so do NOT add them if you don't like a zesty after taste.
AMAZING!! Very flavorful thx for the best thing ever!!!
It's alright i honestly think the french sponge cakes were better though.
Homemade cupcakes are the best kind of cupcakes and even cheaper if you know where to shop!
Yummy! Thanks for sharing recipe!
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