Coconut Pineapple Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting Recipes

PINEAPPLE COCONUT CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. To make cake batter, in a large bowl, beat together eggs with sugar and vanilla. Add flour, pineapple with juice, baking soda and walnuts and mix well to combine.
• Pour cake batter into a 9×13 inch baking pan sprayed with cooking spray. Bake 35 to 40 minutes.
• To making frosting, cream together cream cheese and butter. Add vanilla, coconut extract, and powdered sugar and use an electric mixer to beat until frosting is smooth. Frost cake once it has cooled after baking. Add the coconut on top (optional).

COCONUT-PINEAPPLE CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Grease three 9" round cake pans, and line bottoms with parchment paper.
• Drain pineapple, reserving 3/4 cup juice.
• Remove 1/4 cup of the juice for the Cream Cheese Frosting.
• Reserve the pineapple for the Pineapple Filling.
• Beat butter at medium speed with a mixer until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating well.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating until blended after each addition.
• Combine 1/2 cup reserved pineapple juice and 7-Up.
• Add flour to butter mixture alternately with juice mixture, beginning and ending with flour.
• Beat at low speed until blended after each addition.
• Stir in extracts.
• Pour 1/3 of batter into each of the prepared cake pans.
• Bake at 350 for 25- 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Remove from pans immediately; cool on wire racks.
• Meanwhile make Pineapple Filling.
• Stir together sugar and cornstarch in a saucepan.
• Stir in pineapple and water.
• Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, 15 minutes or until very thick.
• Cool.
• When cake is cool, make Cream Cheese Frosting.
• Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until blended.
• Gradually add powdered sugar, vanilla, and enough pineapple juice to make frosting a good spreading consistency, mixing well.
• When cake has cooled, stack cake layers, spreading 3/4 cup Pineapple Filling between each layer, and spreading remaining filling on top of cake, spreading to within 1/2" of edges.
• Spread Cream Cheese Frosting on sides of cake, and pipe a border around the top 1/2" edge, or just spread some of the frosting around the edge.
• Sprinkle coconut on sides and border, coating the Cream Cheese Frosting.

ANGELA'S PINEAPPLE COCONUT CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Blend all ingredients together in a food processor till light and fluffy.

PINEAPPLE PARADISE CAKE WITH COCONUT CREAM FROSTING

Steps:

• For cake: Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Using a slotted spoon, set aside 1/4 cup pineapple for frosting.
• In mixing bowl, combine remaining pineapple and juice with flour, sugar, eggs, baking soda, vegetable oil and coconut flavoring.
• Beat at medium speed 2 minutes.
• Pour into greased and floured 10-1/2 x 15-1/2 x 1 inch baking pan.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
• Let cool completely.
• To make frosting: Beat cream cheese, butter, sour cream, vanilla and coconut flavoring until smooth and creamy.
• Add powdered sugar; beat until frosting is a spreadable consistency.
• Stir in coconut and reserved 1/4 cup pineapple.
• Use to frost cake.