My best friend's birthday is actually Valentine's Day, a day where we both have class, So I decided to take him out the day before for an early birthday-day. So, we went about a hour out of where we live to go to a bigger city. Our main goal was to go shopping, but we mostly just ate. Sine we are just used ti cheep college food, It was nice to have something different. We ended up eating a bagel on the way to the city, cold-stone ice-cream, candy at the movie theater (I took him to his first "double-feature", where you sneek into another movie before you leave) and then we had Olive Garden. We had salad and soup (with like 5 baskets of bread-sticks), a HUGE main pasta meal, and ended our meal with some taramasu. But, it didn't end there. My best friend really doesn't like his birthday because he doesn't like getting older, so I did my best to make his birthday special for him. I made him (by request) a pineapple upside-down cake.
Here's the recipe I used
http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/pineapple-upside-down-cake-v/Detail.aspx
NOTE: The recipe calls for yellow cake mix, but a "golden butter" cake mix/recipe works much better.
First you need to spread the butter and brown sugar mixture evenly between the two pans. Place crushed pineapple in one pan and pineapple rings in the other. Make sure the pan containing the pineapple rings looks nice (you can also add cherries in the holes of the rings).
Then you simply cover your pineapple with half of your cake mixture. Be sure to remember which pan has the rings and which has the crushed pineapple.
I also added a thin layer of cream-cheese frosting between the two cakes to hold them together and to add some more rich flavor.
Happy Birthday John!
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