I love rum cake. I use my mil’s recipe which has coconut in it and the pan is coated with sugar which gives it a sweet crystalized crust. Yummy! The story of your rum cake reminded me of a lady at our church when I was growing up. She always brought pineapple upside down cakes. Births, out of town guests, weddings, deaths, every life and church event was accompanied by her cake which was baked and delivered with love. Pineapple upside down cake is still one of my all time comfort foods.
I was looking at pineapple upside down cake recipes with the thought of making one for Easter ..... I wanted something ‘different’ from a regular cake. I ended up making a really good apple/pear cobbler instead.
Today, I saw this (individual upside down cakes) & thought you would enjoy the link:
http://www.bigmamashomekitchen.com/2010/10/mini-pineapple-upside-down-cakes.html
I am going to have to try this - looks delicious & SO pretty! :-)