UPSIDE DOWN TEN OF CUPS RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a muffin pan.
• In a medium bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, and cream of tartar. Cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle on the milk, and stir to mix. Place dough on a floured surface and knead for about ten strokes. Too much kneading will toughen up the dough. Divide the dough in half.
• In a small bowl, mix together the brown sugar and cinnamon. On a floured surface, roll out 1/2 of the dough at a time to a 12x10 inch rectangle. Brush with the melted butter, and sprinkle the cinnamon mixture evenly over the dough. Cut the rectangle into 5 strips 12 x 2 inches each. Stack the strips on top of one another, and cut the stack into 2 inch squares. Place the squares, layered side down, into the muffin cups. Bake in the preheated oven for 10 to 12 minutes.
• In a small bowl, stir together the confectioners' sugar and milk until smooth. When cookies come out of the oven, drizzle the icing on.

Steps:

• Move an oven rack into the middle of the oven. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Spray 24 muffin cups with cooking spray.
• Line a work surface with waxed paper.
• Spoon 1 teaspoon melted butter into the bottom of each sprayed muffin cup.
• Spoon 1 tablespoon brown sugar in each muffin cup.
• Press a maraschino cherry into the center of the brown sugar in each muffin cup.
• Spoon a heaping tablespoon of crushed pineapple over the cherry and compact it with the back of a spoon into an even layer.
• Mix pineapple cake mix, eggs, pineapple juice, and vegetable oil in a large bowl with electric mixer on low speed until moistened, about 30 seconds. Turn mixer speed to medium and mix for 2 minutes.
• Pour pineapple cake batter into the muffin cups, filling them to the top; do not overfill.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, about 20 minutes.
• Allow cupcakes to cool at least 5 minutes before inverting muffin cups onto the waxed paper to release. Serve with pineapple and cherry sides up. Sprinkle cupcakes lightly with confectioners' sugar.