Ingredients
½ cup packed light brown sugar
2 tablespoons gold rum
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
1¼ cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
2⁄3 cup sugar
½ cup unsalted butter, softened
1 large egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2⁄3 cup low-fat buttermilk
1 cup chopped fresh cranberries
2. Combine pineapple, brown sugar, rum and cinnamon in pan.
3. Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl.
4. Place sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended, about 5 minutes. Beat in egg and vanilla. Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture; beat until blended. Stir in cranberries. Pour over pineapple mixture.
5. Bake 35 to 40 minutes, until lightly brown and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack 5 minutes, then invert onto a serving plate. Serves 8.
Recipe by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough, Relish the Holiday, "Wake Up Call," December 2007.





