Pineapple Upside Down Baked Sour Cream Donuts Recipe

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Pineapple Upside Down Baked Donuts

These pineapple baked sour cream donuts were very hard to categorize.  If you bake them in a donut pan like I did, they are pineapple upside down baked donuts.  You can bake them in muffin tins if you prefer and called them pineapple upside down coffee cakes maybe.  Either way they are moist and delish, and such a easy less mess way to bake glazed donuts.

The sour cream donut batter is really tender and soft with a vanilla buttery flavour. The sour cream gives it a little extra tang, but the texture is wonderful.  These make a really special baked donut.  If you like pineapple I promise you will want to keep this recipe.

You could add a maraschino cherry  to the center of the donuts once its baked.  Even a little bit of whipped cream and a maraschino cherry for a fun dessert.  Unfortunately I have a severe allergy to colouring so no maraschino cherries in my house.  Its a shame because they would be so pretty on these baked donuts.

Pineapple Upside Down Baked Donut Recipe

Pineapple Layer Ingredients

Sour Cream Cake Layer Ingredients

Preheat oven to 350 F. Set out a large muffin tin. (You don’t need to grease and flour coat it)

Melt butter, add brown sugar, add pineapple. Place equally portions in the bottom of 12 muffin cups. Spread out evenly.

Mixing the Baked Donut Dough

In a large mixing bowl beat the butter until fluffy, add the sugar, beat again. scrape down the sides of the bowl.

Add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.scrape down the sides of the bowl.

Remove from the mixer. Fold in the sour cream and vanilla.  Place back in the mixer.

In a second large bowl add the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix well to disperse the baking soda and baking powder throughout.

With your mixer on low, add the mixed dry ingredients about half a cup at a time. Beat until combined and the batter is smooth (about 30 seconds).

Once mixed spoon the sour cream cake batter over the pineapple layer.

Bake at 350 F for 20-30 minutes.

Cover with a serving plate or cookie sheet, flip over, lift off the pan.  If some stick flip the donut pan over and loosen the edges with a knife.

Serve warm or cold.

Freezing Baked Donuts

To freeze the pineapple upside down donuts I wrapped mine in bundles of two with parchment paper.  Then place them in a heavy duty freezer bag.  Make sure nothing crushes them until they are frozen hard.  Stored this way they should maintain their best quality for about 2 to 3 months.

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Pineapple Upside Down Baked Sour Cream Donut Recipe

Moist and delicious pineapple upside down sour cream baked donuts. A modern twist on Grama's pineapple upside down cake. They have a sweet and chewy golden brown topping made with pineapple and brown sugar and a very tender and moist cake like batter that features sour cream.

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Prep Time:15 mins

Cook Time:30 mins

Total Time:45 mins

Ingredients

Pineapple Topping Layer

• 1 can pineapple tidbits drained well
• ½ cup butter
• 1 cup brown sugar

Sour Cream Cake

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup white sugar
• 3 extra large eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup real sour cream full fat
• 3 cups flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 F. Set out a large muffin tin. (You don’t need to grease and flour coat it)
• Melt butter, add brown sugar, add pineapple. Place equally portions in the bottom of 12 muffin cups. Spread out evenly.
  
• In a large mixing bowl beat the butter until fluffy, add the sugar, beat again. scrape down the sides of the bowl.
• Add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition, scrape down the sides of the bowl. 
• Remove from the mixer. Fold in the sour cream and vanilla.  Place back in the mixer.
• In a second large bowl add the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix well to disperse the baking soda and baking powder throughout. 
• With your mixer on low, add the mixed dry ingredients about half a cup at a time. Beat until combined and the batter is smooth (about 30 seconds).
• Once mixed spoon the sour cream cake batter over the pineapple layer.
  
• Bake at 350 F for 20-30 minutes.
• Cover with a serving plate or cookie sheet, flip over, lift off the pan.  If some stick flip the donut pan over and loosen the edges with a knife.
  

Notes

These pineapple upside down baked donuts, are moist and really tender.  The glaze bakes in the pan so no messy glazing to deal with.  A modern twist on Grama’s melt in your mouth pineapple upside down cake recipe.

Course: Snack

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Baked Donuts

Servings: 12 donuts

Cost: $6

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