This is the way I make a Pineapple Upside Down Cake. Best ever! Use a rich and moist cake mix and ignore those people who scoff at mixes; A 'scratch' cake is seldom, if ever, better.

My Mother used box mixes because they have real cake flour, not All-Purpose flour, and she didn't care to keep both on hand. She liked the mixes because they had precisely adjusted the leavening for a perfect rise. She added eggs and oil or butter, and she did the mixing and the baking, so what does it matter if Duncan Hines or Betty Crocker had pre-measured the flour.

Sorry John, but I have to vigorously disagree with you. Cake mixes taste like chemicals and sugar and are disgusting. They also have no "body" and are like trying to eat chemically flavored air. There is NO SUBSTITUTE for FRESH chemical-free butter and egg and natural flavor tastes in a cake. People's palates differ in sensitivity to tastes, and so some people probably can't taste the difference but I sure can, and the people I cook for can always tell. Use your mixes if it tastes okay to you, but you'll never find me wasting my time preparing that garbage.

I love this! A yearly favorite for my girl's birthday.

Of course after reading the ingredients on a box cake mix I have not been able to use another box cake since. Go for the scratch.

The testy reply indicates deeper issues regarding food. Were you deprived as a child?? We can disagree w/o being nasty!!

You are a real b----. Everyone does what they can, in the time they have and to their liking. Not everything is about you. I have made it both ways and I prefer it from scratch because of the texture. I have made it from a cake mix and it is too fluffy for me. I do not condemn anyone elses likes or dislikes.

I don't know what cake mixes you've used. But I always use a cake mix with even my red velvet devils food! My icings are homemade and that's what makes the cake! My carrot cake is the only one I use cake flour! Sorry, but I have to agree with John!

I have to agree with the cake mix comment. They are always moist and good. I find most scratch cakes very dry...

Great cake. I have two desserts, pineapple upside down cake and pecan pie. Kim is, sadly, mistaken no one can tell the difference between bought and prepare your own. Actually the mixes are somewhat better. I think John is correct.

I agree with the folks who prefer a cake made from scratch as opposed to a box cake. Most if not all food you can buy ready made or just add a few ingredients is mostly all chemicals, extracts of ingredients, etc. Real food ingredients always makes the best tasting food. It is also nutrient dense as opposed to the stuff created in a food lab by scientist. The food industry is NOT doing our health any favors, in fact they are destroying it. All this industrial pre-packaged food has little to no nutrients in it. As a matter of fact the reason their industrial food even taste good at all is because of the high amounts of salt, sugar and unhealthy fats. Without those ingredients this food would taste absolutely putrid. The other thing they are causing is a major surge in metabolic disease (heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer etc. The best thing one can do for their health is to get back in their kitchen & start cooking from scratch using whole foods (real food - nutrient dense) & watch your health improve.

Yeah, like real Butter and SALT. good for the heart... ;-(

Works well and tastes good. Need a Hawaiian recipe? This... is a tasty example! Mmmmm!!