DIY pineapple upside-down-cake for dolls!

       To make these mini cakes for your dolls you will need the following supplies: cardboard scraps, Sculpey oven-bake clay, white school glue, acrylic paints, a paper napkin and puff paints. 

Above on the left are the finished upside down pineapple doll cakes, including maraschino
cherries inside of the pineapple rings; this is traditional in the United States. Maraschino
cherries are preserved and sweetened. Right is what our doll cakes look like on the bottom.
 These are single servings of cake, intended to be plated individually on dolly china.

       An upside-down cake is a cake that is baked "upside-down" in a single pan or skillet with its toppings at the bottom of the pan. When removed from the oven, the finished upside-down preparation is flipped over and de-panned onto a serving plate, thus "righting" it, and serving it right-side up.

       Usually chopped or sliced fruits like: cherries, peaches, or pineapples — melted butter, and crumbled brown sugar are placed on the bottom of the pan before the batter is poured in, so that they form a baked-on topping after the cake is inverted. A yellow cake batter is frequently used with these recipes. Boxed cakes are suitable for these recipes too; just replace the water with the juices of the fruits and add water to make up the difference when there is not enough fruit juice.

       The first American recipes for upside-down cake, using prunes, appeared in newspapers in 1923.

       In the United States, pineapple upside down cakes became popular in the mid-1920s after Dole Pineapple Company sponsored a contest for pineapple recipes. They received over 2,500 various submissions for the inverted pineapple cake and ran an advertisement about it, which increased the cake's popularity.

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Cut the size of the cakes you prefer using the cardboard.
2. Glue multiple pieces of these identical cuts together using white school glue. Let dry.
3. Shape the pineapple rings using the Sculpey. Using a toothpick score the tops just as pineapple rings look when canned.
4. Roll out a maraschino cheeries from the Sculpey and lightly press it into the center of your pineapple rings. Bake as directed. 
5. After the clay, fruit elements have cooled, glue these onto the cardboard cake pieces. Let dry.
6. Cut out, from paper napkin, the bottoms of the cakes to glue underneath. This rippling from the napkin makes the cardboard surface look more like cake. Let dry.
7. Paint each cake yellow on the sides and bottoms.
8. Now paint the fruits.
9. Squeeze a butterscotch puff paint color on to the top of each cake to make these look like brown sugar toppings.