Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Ingredients for top layer *read through recipe first*
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 eight ounce can pineapple slices
Maraschino Cherries

Directions for top layer
Melt margarine or butter (you can do this in the oven on 350 in the 9X13 pan that you will use)
Add brown sugar to the butter and mix then smooth out over the entire baking dish
Line pineapples in a single layer all over the bottom and place a cherry in the middle of each slice.

Cake Ingredients
1 and 1/2 cup cake flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 tsp shortening
1 egg
3/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla

Directions for cake
Put all ingredients in a bowl and beat for 3 minutes then spread batter over the pineapple and brown sugar mixture
Bake at 350 for 40 minutes.

Let cool for about 10 minutes and then flip onto platter. Serve warm or at room temp.