Pineapple Upside Down Cake

   Good morning and happy new week. Over the weekend I made us pineapple upside down cake-gluten free.

  This one was very moist and delicious, and stayed moist-which many gluten free cakes do not by the third day.

  I am a farm girl baker but the gluten free baked goods from scratch just haven't worked out well for me-and in the past I did try out many different recipes and different gluten free flours too.

  Now, instead of wasting ingredients with disappointments I use Bob's Red Mill gluten free mixes or Glutino or sometimes King Arthur. I do allot of shopping online these days-as we live more rural for shopping now since moving out of the woods and onto Lake in the Ozarks. I buy allot from Vitacost and take advantage of their sales-for me an excellent source for gluten free and organic canned goods.

  For the bottom (now the top) I used butter and coconut sugar and then added on top the drained crushed pineapple. I think the coconut sugar results in a darker topping. In the cake I used coconut oil instead of butter and I added pineapple extract to enhance the pineapple flavors

   I bake allot in cast iron and when I flipped this one I used the top of a large plastic storage container-then when cool I used the bottom for the top-I think this helped keep the cake moist for four days.

 The downsize of mixes for us, is that they all have sugar in the ingredients which I don't bake with usually. To cut down on sugars for Larry I use Splenda, or keto sweeteners when I bake from scratch. So these are a treat for us every few months.

PS in my list of labels-bottom of blog pages-are lots of cast iron cooking and baking recipes-just look for cast iron.

  Looks like another very hot and humid week here in the Ozarks-I think I have reached the point of I am ready for fall weather-yes I know it's early but we have started a large landscape project and the temps early mornings are already in the mid to high 70's with high humidity.  I am not a hot weather person and it's getting harder the older I get. I am thankful for the rain we received last week-much needed and the grass is growing again.

  Happy Monday

   

  (image found online)

Update: I decided to change up the title of my blog this morning.  I am living on the lake now and not in the woods-so a bit of a new start with my blog.

    I first started a blog back around 2004 or 5 after retirement and moving down to Missouri in the woods in the fall of 2003. I did allot of natural dyeing, eco printing, and more. Loved heating only with wood, still canning and preserving foods etc.

    I never thought about age til this year-I can feel that I am in my mid 70's now.  Smiles. Going forward this year we have landscape projects and I am keeping focused on spinning, weaving, and soon sashiko projects. 

   While spinning I decided to change the name of my blog-it now reflects where I am at in my life right now.