Aunt Ruthies Pinapple Cake Recipes

EASY PINEAPPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 baking dish.
• In a large bowl, mix together the flour, sugar and baking soda. Make a well in the center and add the eggs, vanilla and crushed pineapple, with liquid from can. Mix well to blend.
• Bake for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean.
• To make the frosting: in a medium bowl, combine cream cheese, butter, confectioners sugar and 1 teaspoon of vanilla. Beat until creamy. Spread on warm cake.

AUNT MARY'S CARROT-PINEAPPLE BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Grease and lightly flour baking pan. Preheat oven to 325°F
• Mix together dry Ingredients: sugar, soda, cake flour, salt, cinnamon, baking powder
• Drain can of pineapple juice from pineapple, saving the juice.
• Add the following to the dry mixture and beat for 3 minutes: Pineapple juice, eggs, oil, vanilla
• Stir in pineapple, carrots and (optional) pecans
• Bake in Bundt pan at 325 degrees for about 1 1/2 hours. (Can also be baked in 9 x 13 for about 45 minutes.).
• Cool for 10 minutes in pan before unmolding
• Frost with Currant-Nut Icing.
• Currant-Nut Icing
• 4 1/2 cups icing sugar (1 box) 2 Tablespoon vanilla
• 1 pkg (8 oz.) soft cream cheese 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
• 1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup currants
• 2 Tablespoon milk
• Plump currants by soaking in 1/3 cup of hot water for 5 minutes.
• Drain well.
• Beat sugar, cream cheese (I use laughing cow cheese), butter, milk and vanilla
• until smooth. Fold in walnuts and currants.
• Spread over cooled cake.

AUNT RUTHIES PINAPPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Mix all cake ingredients in large bowl and put in a greased 9x11 cake pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes
• While cake is baking make the icing and ice cake while it is still hot. The icing is thick and it will cook some on the hot cake melting into the cake a little but also will seal off.

AUNT JERRI'S UPSIDE-DOWN PINEAPPLE CAKE

Steps:

• preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• in bowl combine flour, baking powder, and salt and sift together.
• in a separate bowl combine eggs and butter.
• cream together with hand mixer.
• gradually add sugar while continuing to blend.
• add vanilla and milk, blend till mixed.
• gradually add dry ingredients to wet batter.
• mix well, but don't over mix.
• icing: place melted butter in round cake pan.
• put in the brown sugar and mix with butter.
• make sure it is evenly spread around the pan.
• sprinkle pineapples around pan.
• evenly pour batter into pan.
• bake for 35 minutes or until you can insert a tooth pick and it comes out clean.
• Note:if you want to include cherries sprinkle in with pineapples.
• take out of pan immediatly or the sugar will stick to the pan.

AUNT TOOTIE'S PINEAPPLE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Stir together 1/3 cup of sugar and cornstarch in a small saucepan. Stir in the crushed pineapple with the juice, then bring to a simmer over medium heat. Cook and stir until the mixture has thickened and turned clear. Remove from the heat and allow to cool.
• While the pineapple mixture is cooling, place the milk, vanilla extract, cream cheese, 1/2 cup sugar, and salt into a blender. Pulse until the mixture is combined, then add an egg and pulse until smooth. Add the remaining egg, and pulse again until the mixture is smooth. Pour into the pie shell and smooth the top. Carefully pour the pineapple mixture over the pie until evenly covered, then sprinkle with a pinch of nutmeg.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes, then reduce the heat to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C), and continue baking until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean, about 40 minutes more. Cool to room temperature, then refrigerate for several hours before serving cold.

AUNT MURNA'S JAM CAKE

Steps:

• Soak raisins in pineapple and juice several hours or overnight. , In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add jam and buttermilk; beat until well blended. Sift together dry ingredients; add to batter. Beat on low just until combined. Stir in the raisins, pineapple and pecans. , Pour into 2 greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake at 350° until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 50 minutes. Cool in pans for 10 minutes before removing to wire racks. , For icing, melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in brown sugar and milk; bring to a boil. Remove from the heat. Cool just until warm; beat in enough confectioners' sugar for icing to reach spreading consistency. Add more sugar for thicker icing or more milk to thin it. Frost cooled cake.

AUNT'S RUTH POUND CAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• Cream butter, shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift dry ingredients together. Add vanilla and lemon extract to milk. Add dry ingredients to sugar and egg mixture, alternating with liquid, beating just to blend, until all ingredients are combined. Beat batter on medium speed for 5 minutes. Place into greased and floured 10-inch tube pan and place into COLD oven. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15-20 minutes until a cake tester inserted in the middle comes out clean. ShareThis