I made pineapple upside-down cake for a friend of mine once, and while we were at the store getting the stuff for it, she insisted on the cherries. so I got those... and didn't realize until afterwards that she'd put cherries basically in every gap within and between the pineapple rings. ...after I'd said she could "put a few on one corner or something."
I sent the whole thing and the rest of the cherries home with her. she was... trying not to be too sulky about me not liking it, I guess. good cake, ruined for me. and then she tried to guilt me afterwards, that her little family couldn't eat it fast enough, too much cake, wouldn't have gone bad if I'd helped eat any too.
bleeeeeh those cherries taste bad though. If I'm gonna each cherries it's gonna be fresh cherries or proper cherries in the syrup that's used in blackforest. Not..those weird red fake cherries
yeah, I thought I'd made it perfectly clear to her earlier, when I went off on a bit of a rant about how much I disliked them. idek.
but it's a stupidly easy cake to do. box of yellow cake mix and what it calls for, a can or two of pineapple, and some brown sugar. plop the rings into the cake pan, put a layer of brown sugar over it, then add the batter.
they are real cherries, just... adulterated. idek what it is they add to them, past dye, but they taste like... idk. almost like they've been soaking in cough syrup, to me.
twin, ftr, I really do encourage you to find some way - perhaps a small one! - to try pineapple someday. but just be aware that it's one of those fruits that can taste very different, depending on how it's prepared. cooking it will remove a lot of its tart/tanginess, for example. when raw, it's more similar than not, in some ways, to oranges. tastes
great in a punch with them, that's for certain.... but baked, it's another matter. it's a little like how, when you cook barbecue sauce, it'll do away with much of the vinegar, and just leave it tasting sweeter. it's kinda like that.
...that said, baked barbecue pineapple is amazing. or pineapple baked on ham, with brown sugar and/or honey....
was going to say, if you find one of those dried-chunks-of-tropical-fruit trail mix type things, dried-candied pineapple also isn't tangy. the sugar gets rid of that, imho
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: I don't care what anybody says...nobody will convince me that they are REAL cherries coz why would you do such a horrible thing to real cherries.
minus the cherries... am not so fond of those. XD
but it's a stupidly easy cake to do. box of yellow cake mix and what it calls for, a can or two of pineapple, and some brown sugar. plop the rings into the cake pan, put a layer of brown sugar over it, then add the batter.
...that said, baked barbecue pineapple is amazing. or pineapple baked on ham, with brown sugar and/or honey....