Pineapple Upside Down Cake Balls

These were the perfect treat for our New Year's Eve get together! Keeping with the hors d'oeuvres and appetizer theme, these were placed along side the meatballs, cheese and crackers and so on for people to just pick up and pop in their mouth as they were walking by. I had the hardest time coming up with a individual dessert recipe until I stumbled upon these tasty little bites. I then put my own little spin on it and created pineapple upside down cake balls! They were so yummy, almost better than regular pineapple upside down cake! These do take some time, but it is definitely worth it!

Recipe:
1 box pineapple supreme cake mix
1 can of sprite (to use in place of eggs, oil and water)
1/2 cup of butter
1/2 cup of packed brown sugar
1 can pineapple chunks
1 jar maraschino cherries
toothpicks

Melt the butter and brown sugar together and spread on the bottom of a 9x13 pan. Mix cake batter and sprite together and pour on top of butter/brown sugar mixture. Bake cake according to time on box. Let it cool for a few hours or overnight if possible. When cooled, crumble cake into bowl. Mix in pineapple juice from can until cake is moist. Roll cake mixture into 1-2 inch balls and place on wax paper. Cut pineapple chunks and maraschino cherries into smaller pieces. Place one piece of pineapple and one piece of cherry on top of cake ball and secure with a toothpick. This makes between 36-48 cake balls depending on size of ball.

These can be done in SO many cake combos! This will be my new go to dessert treat for parties or BBQs.