Sonya at Dime Store Thrift is a sly gal. After weeks of chatting in the blogosphere about her own passion for thrift shopping and my giving her some tips for her vacation to the Kansas City area, she finally talked me into giving her an interview, and it was a doozey! I can't believe all the of the details that she dragged out of me! Read it here. So charming is Sonya, combined with my own gift of gab, that she, for the first time ever, finagled out of me the top-secret recipe for my famous pineapple upside-down cake. It's similar to the one featured in the Los Angeles Times, the one I made for Sharleen Reeder at Luticia Clementine's in Independence, Mo., the one for Yasmine McGrane of Maison Rêve in Mill Valley, Calif., the one for a Bastille Day party that The Vintage Laundress threw in Austin, and the one for the New York VIP dinner celebrating the launch of The Find: The Housing Works Book of Decorating With Thrift Shop Treasures, Flea Market Objects, and Vintage Details in May. Until this morning, I've never completely revealed how I make my cake.
But it looks like the cat is out of the bag!
I can no longer demure a request for my pineapple upside-down cake recipe. Thanks to Sonya, you can attempt your own version of my cake with the recipe here. But what I can tell you is that if I make a cake for you, you'll never know which version I used -- the boxed or the scratched. Like I told Sonya last night, many fancy folks have feasted on Betty Crocker and left not a crumb!
For your own copy of The Find: The Housing Works Book of Decorating with Thrift Shop Treasures, Flea Market Objects, and Vintage Details head on over to Borders, Barnes & Noble, Amazon or Powell's.
Always Frugal, Always Fabulous!
The Elegant Thrifter
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