I made Pioneer Woman’s Pineapple Upside-down Cake yesterday. It was a present for an elderly relative who did not get a birthday cake from her family on Saturday. It turned out that this is one of her favorite cakes so it was a “score”!!
I have made this PW cake before. The cake part is really, really good. My issue was getting the middle to set. I had to leave it in the oven 50 - 55 minutes rather than the 30- 40 given in the recipe.
All this to get to the issue of a ‘cake tester’. Mine is packed up somewhere & I haven’t found it yet. I don’t like using broom straw, but I did pull a clean one from the top of a broom yesterday. I came across this article while looking to maybe order a cake tester ... very interesting & I have the perfect knife!
https://food52.com/blog/22383-the-only-tool-i-use-to-test-cakes-is-not-a-toothpick
Now that was an interesting read about cake testers!
P/W’s recipes are great. Will have to try that p/u/c.