Peach Upside Down Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 (18 1/4 ounce) box yellow cake mix
    1/4 lb margarine
    4 eggs
    2 (15 1/4 ounce) cans peaches in heavy syrup, juice reserved
    1 (2 ounce) bag pecans
    1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
    1 tablespoon brown sugar
    1 (6 ounce) jar maraschino cherries, undrained
    1/4 cup brown sugar (again)
Preparation
    Mix cake batter according to directions on box, but substitute reserved peach juice/syrup for water.
    Add margarine, then eggs.
    Sprinkle some cinnamon & a little brown sugar [as much as desired!], then blend until it is thick. Set aside.
    In bottom of a 13\"x9\" non-stick cake pan, place peach halves, cut side down & with a cherry in the middle of each, lining bottom of pan with peaches.
    Sprinkle a little brown sugar over peaches.
    Put a whole pecan in each of the spaces where peach halves come together, & place more all around the pan.
    Drizzle A LITTLE BIT of the cherry liquid over the peaches.
    Pour cake batter over peaches, covering all of them.
    Bake cake according to directions on box, but increasing baking time A LITTLE BIT.
    When done, remove from oven & cool slightly before inverting cake onto a serving plate.
    Great served warm, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

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