Pineapple Cake With Crunch Coconut Topping Recipes

PINEAPPLE CRUNCH CAKE RECIPE - (4.3/5)

Steps:

• The Cake: Place drained pineapple on a plate and pat the pineapple pieces dry and set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg. Mix on low for one minute. Add the butter pieces and continue to mix on low until the mixture resembles sand. In a small bowl whisk together the eggs , sour cream and vanilla. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry mixture and mix on low until the ingredients are just combined. Increase speed to medium high and mix for 1-1/2 minutes or until smooth. Fold the pineapple into the batter. Spoon the batter into the prepared baking dish and smooth batter with the back of a spoon. Sprinkle crunch topping over all. Bake the cake for 50 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. After 30 minutes of baking, cover the top of cake loosely with a piece of aluminum foil to help prevent the top of the cake from browning too much. Serve topped with warm caramel sauce. The Crunch topping: Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl and gently mix the butter into the dry ingredients Warm Caramel Sauce: In a medium size, heavy-bottom saucepan, combine the heavy cream, butter, brown sugar, salt and water. Place pan over medium heat and continue to stir until the sugar is dissolved and the mixture comes to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the vanilla. Continue to stir vigorously until the sauce is smooth. Serve sauce warm. To store sauce allow it to cool completely and store in an air tight container in the refrigerator for up to one week.

PINEAPPLE CRUNCH CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, brown sugar, baking soda and salt. Stir in pineapple and walnuts. Pour into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes on a wire rack., For icing, combine sugar, butter and milk in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil and boil for 2 minutes. Pour over warm cake. Sprinkle with coconut if desired.

COCONUT-PINEAPPLE LOAF CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread coconut on a rimmed baking sheet. Bake until lightly toasted, tossing occasionally, 6 to 10 minutes; set aside. Butter and flour a 9-by-5-inch (8-cup) loaf pan; set aside. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
• Using an electric mixer on high speed, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Reduce speed to low, and alternately add flour mixture in three parts and sour cream in two, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix just until combined (do not overmix).
• Using a rubber spatula, fold pineapple and 1 cup coconut into batter. Spoon into prepared pan, and smooth top; sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup coconut. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 65 to 70 minutes (cover pan with foil halfway through). Let cake cool in pan 15 minutes. Remove from pan, and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

SUNSHINE COCONUT PINEAPPLE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the first seven ingredients. Combine the oil, lemon juice and vanilla. Drain pineapple, reserving juice. If necessary, add enough water to juice to measure 3/4 cup. Add oil mixture and pineapple juice mixture to dry ingredients; stir just until moistened. Fold in pineapple., Place in a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack., For frosting, in a large , beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Fold in whipped topping. Spread over cake; sprinkle with coconut if desired. Store in the refrigerator.

PINEAPPLE CAKE WITH CRUNCH COCONUT TOPPING

Steps:

• To make the topping: Combine the brown sugar, flour and coconut in a bowl.
• Cut in the butter until crumbly and set aside until needed.
• To make the cake, grease a 10" tube pan, line the base with parchment paper and grease.
• Drain the pineapple, reserving 1/2 cup syrup.
• Cream the butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the eggs one at a time and beat until combined.
• Stir in alternately the flour and the reserved syrup, making two additions of each.
• Spread half the cake mixture evenly over the base of the prepared pan, top with the well-drained pineapple and half the topping.
• Spread with the remaining cake mixture and sprinkle with the remaining topping.
• Bake at 350 degrees F for about 50 minutes and let stand 5 minutes before turning on to a wire rack to cool.

PINEAPPLE CRUNCH CAKE

Steps:

• Cream sugar and margarine in bowl. Add eggs, flour, soda and salt, mix well.
• Ad pineapple, undrained, and vanilla.mix well.
• Pour into greased and floured 13x9 pan.
• Bake at 300* for 1 hour or until cake tests done.
• Spread PECAN TOPPING over hot cake.
• Broil until TOPPING is bubbly.
• to prepare PECAN TOPPING:.
• Combine all ingredients in bowl, mix well.
• spread over hot cake.
• Broil until bubbly.

PINEAPPLE-COCONUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Separate pineapple rings and juice. Chop enough rings to fill a 1/4 cup measure. Pour 1/4 cup juice into a small bowl. Set aside remaining rings.
• Melt butter for caramel in a small saucepan. Add brown sugar, whipped topping, and vanilla extract. Whisk until smooth and bring to a boil. Pour caramel into a 9-inch round glass cake pan, coating the bottom evenly. Arrange pineapple rings over top, slicing them if desired. Set aside.
• Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together into a bowl.
• Cream sugar and butter together in another bowl. Gradually add flour mixture and mix until it resembles a coarse pastry dough. Add eggs; mix thoroughly. Stir in coconut milk, pineapple chunks and reserved juice, and vanilla extract. Stir in grated coconut. Carefully pour batter over the glazed pan.
• Place the cake pan on top of a baking sheet and bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes.

PINEAPPLE COCONUT CAKE

Steps:

• Drain pineapple, reserving juice. Add enough water to juice to measure 1-1/3 cups. Prepare cake batter and bake in 13x9-inch pan sprayed with cooking spray as directed on package, substituting the juice mixture for the water and 1-1/2 cups COOL WHIP for the oil. Cool cake completely on wire rack.
• Beat cream cheese in large bowl with mixer until creamy. Add pudding mixes and milk; beat until blended. Stir in pineapple. Spread pudding mixture over cake.
• Top with remaining COOL WHIP, nuts and coconut just before serving.

COCONUT CAKE WITH CRUSHED PINEAPPLE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter three 9-inch round cake pans and dust lightly with flour.
• Prepare cake: Stir flour, sugar, salt, and baking soda together in a large bowl. Stir in eggs and melted butter until just combined. Add sour cream, vanilla and coconut extracts, undrained pineapple and coconut; stir until combined. Divide batter evenly into the three prepared pans.
• Bake in the center of the preheated oven until a wooden pick inserted in the middle of a layer comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Cool in the pans on wire racks about 10 minutes. Turn layers out onto the racks and cool completely, about 1 hour.
• Prepare the buttercream frosting: Beat butter in the bowl of an electric mixer until fluffy and lighter in color. Add 1 cup powdered sugar and 1 tablespoon cream; beat on medium speed for about 1 minute. When the sugar is fully incorporated, add vanilla, salt, 1 additional cup of powdered sugar, and 1 more tablespoon cream; beat for about 2 minutes. Beat in the remaining powdered sugar. If the frosting is too stiff, add a few drops of cream and stir again. Repeat until the desired consistency is reached.
• Prepare the filling: Remove 1 cup of the frosting and place in a medium mixing bowl. Add drained, crushed pineapple and stir. Add a few drops of reserved pineapple juice if the mixture is too stiff.
• To assemble: place one cake layer on a cake plate or stand. Spread 1/2 of the filling on top of the first layer. Put the second layer in place and spread the remaining filling on it. Place the third layer on the top and spread the remaining buttercream frosting on the top and sides of the cake. Garnish the top of the cake with flaked coconut, and add drained pineapple tidbits as desired.

PINEAPPLE ICE-CREAM CAKE WITH COCONUT TOPPING

Steps:

• In the bottom of an 8 1/2-inch springform pan arrange the cake, cutting the pieces to fit in one layer, and freeze it while making the ice cream.
• Make the ice cream:
• In a heavy saucepan combine pineapple and 1/4 cup of the sugar and simmer the mixture, stirring until the sugar is dissolved, for 5 minutes. Drain the pineapple mixture in a fine sieve set over a bowl, reserving the syrup for another use. In a bowl whisk together the remaining 1/2 cup sugar, the cornstarch, a pinch of salt, the yolks, and the whole egg and add the milk, scalded, in a stream, whisking. In a heavy saucepan bring the custard to a boil over moderate heat, whisking, boil it, whisking, for 2 minutes, and strain it through a fine sieve into a metal bowl set in a larger bowl of ice and cold water. Stir in the pineapple mixture and vanilla, let the custard cool, stirring, and stir in the cream. Freeze the custard in an ice-cream freezer according to the manufacturer's instructions until it is frozen but still soft.
• Spoon the ice cream over the cake, spreading it evenly, and freeze the cake while making the topping.
• Make the topping:
• In a bowl beat the cream until it holds soft peaks and beat in the sugar and sour cream. Beat the mixture until it just holds stiff peaks and fold in the coconut gently but thoroughly.
• Spoon the topping over the ice cream, spreading it evenly, and freeze the cake, its surface covered with plastic wrap, overnight. Let the cake stand at room temperature for 10 minutes, remove the side of the pan, and transfer the cake to a serving plate. Sprinkle the coconut on top and serve the cake into wedges.