Upside Down Cake

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup shortening
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup milk
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
• Apple Variation
• 3 apples, peeled and sliced
• Peach Variation
• 1 (20 ounce) can peach slices, drained
• Pineapple Variation
• pineapple ring
• glace cherries, to place in pineapple ring holes
• Rhubarb Variation
• 1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
• 2 cups rhubarb, diced