Pineapple Upside Down Cake

The other day, I was was watching a movie with Zach and Nate, and they mentioned a Pineapple Upside Down Cake. Zach didn't expect that to be a real food, so jokingly asked if he could make Pineapple Upside Down Cake. Mom answered with a "Sure" and started looking up the recipe. Zach, knowing that it was a fantasy movie, and thinking there was no such thing as Pineapple Upside Down Cake, looked dumbfounded. They made such a great cake, we're going to have to make another one. This is the recipe:

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Makes 8 servings Oven 350

2 tablespoons of butter

1/3 cup brown sugar

1 8-ounce of pineapple slices, drained and halved

1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour

2/3 cup of granulated sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

2/3 cup of milk

1/4 cup of butter, softened

1 egg

1 teaspoon of vanilla

1. Melt the 2 tablespoons butter in a 9x1 1/2 inch round cake pan. Stir in brown sugar and 1 tablespoon water. Arrange pineapple in the pan. Set pan aside.

2. In a medium mixing bowl stir together flour, granulated sugar, and baking powder. Add milk, the 1/4 cup of butter, egg, and vanilla. Beat with an electric mixer on low speed until combined. Beat on medium speed for 1 minute. Spoon batter over fruit in the prepared pan.

3. Bake in a 350 oven for 30-35 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool on wire rack for 5 minutes. Loosen cake from pan; invert onto plate. Serve warm.

I hope you like it! By the way if you want to put cherries in (I didn't) you need 4 maraschino cherries, halved.

piano

This is for Gabriella. It is a song I have been working on this past week. Do you recognize the music?

Ms. Wright

Ms. Wright is my 3rd grade teacher. She's also one of my favorite teachers. She is the opposite of Mrs. Rosenthal. Mrs. Rosenthal is my brother Eric's 5th grade teacher. She is really mean and yells a lot. I would want to skip a grade if Mrs. Rosenthal wasn't a teacher. I'm scared that if I skip a grade I'll get Mrs. Rosenthal for a teacher. So as I explained Mrs. Rosenthal enough, you'll know how Ms. Wright is. She is funny and teaches us 4th, 5th, and 6th grade stuff so school is so exciting! Ms. Wright is going to try to teach 4th grade next year.

I think Ms. Wright's name matches her. She's always right and she likes to write. I put those spellings together and get Ms. Wright. My dad calls her Ms. Wrong, Ms. Read, and Ms. Left.
I think Ms. Wright is the greatest teacher ever!

Mother's Day

Today is Mothers Day. In church I made a picture frame and put a picture of myself in it. I also filled out a survey. This is what I said:

My mom likes it when I Help Clean.

One nice thing that my mom does for me is Make My Bed (Very Rare)

One place I like to go with my mom is Target and Cold Stone.

My mom is special because She Tries To Be Funny Even Though She Dosen't Succeed.

One Thing I can do to make my mom happy is go to bed on-time which means at 6:30.


Here Are Some other funny answers:

Nathan: One thing I can do to make my mom happy is stay in the gate.