Olympic Ring Cake

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 1 (20 ounce) can pineapple slices
• 1 (18 1/4 ounce) package yellow cake mix
• 3 eggs
• 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• small colorful decorative candies (like mini m&ms)
• whipped cream

Recipe

• 1 butter sides of a 9x13 pan.
• 2 melt remaining butter, add brown sugar, and mix well.
• 3 press sugar mixture into bottom of pan.
• 4 drain juice from pineapple into a measuring cup, set aside.
• 5 arrange 5 slices of pineapple in olympic ring fashion in center of brown sugar.
• 6 cut remaining pineapple slices and arrange pieces around outer edge of brown sugar.
• 7 add enough water to reserved pineapple juice to measure 1 1/4 cups liquid.
• 8 beat together liquid, cake mix, eggs, and softened cream cheese until smooth.
• 9 pour cake batter over pineapple.
• 10 bake at 350 degrees for 35-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
• 11 cool cake in pan 5 minutes, invert in serving platter.
• 12 immediately arrange colorful candies around the 5 olympic pineapple rings in the following order, from left to right.
• 13 top row: blue, black, red.
• 14 bottom row: yellow, green.
• 15 serve lukewarm with whipped cream.
• 16 for traditional pineapple upside down cake, arrange all pineapple slices on brown sugar, place a maraschino cherry in center of each and eliminate colorful candies.