Dream Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup brown sugar packed
• 0.3 cup butter melted
• 4  eggs 
• 6  maraschino cherries halved
• 0.5 cup planters pecans chopped
• 24 oz pineapple in juice undrained canned
• 1 cup water cold
• 1  env. dream whip whipped topping mix 
• 1 pkg duncan hines classic decadent cake mix yellow (2-layer size)

Equipment

• frying pan
• oven
• blender

Directions

1. Heat oven to 350F.
2. Drain pineapple, reserving 2 Tbsp. juice; set aside.
3. Combine sugar and butter in 13x9-inch pan. Arrange pineapple slices in pan, cutting if necessary to fit.
4. Place cherry half, cut-side up, in center of each slice.
5. Sprinkle with reserved pineapple juice, then nuts.
6. Beat remaining ingredients with mixer until blended; pour over ingredients in pan.
7. Bake 50 to 55 min. or until top springs back when lightly pressed in center; cool in pan 10 min. Invert cake onto plate. (Do not remove pan.)
8. Let stand 1 min.; remove pan.
9. Serve cake warm or cooled.