Pineapple Coconut Pound Cake Recipes

PINEAPPLE COCONUT BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray an angel food pan with baking spray.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
• To your stand mixer add the butter and sugar on medium speed until lightened in color and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
• Add in the eggs one at a time, then add the vanilla extract.
• Alternate flour and sour cream until just combined.
• Stir in the pineapple and 1 1/2 cups of coconut and pour batter into angel food cake pan.
• Sprinkle remaining coconut shreds on top of the batter and bake 50-55 minutes.
• Let cake cool 20 minutes before removing from pan.

PINEAPPLE COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Heat oven to 325 degrees. Grease a 12 cup bundt pan. Lightly flour and tap out excess.
• 2. Whisk flour, baking soda and salt together in a medium bowl.
• 3. Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.Beat in eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• 4. Mix yogurt with pineapples in a small bowl.
• 5. Beat flour mixture into butter mixture, low speed, in 3 additions alternating with yogurt mixture, starting and ending with flour. Add coconut extract and vanilla and continue to beat for 3 minutes.
• 6. Pour into prepared bundt pan. Bake for 60 mins at 325 or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Place pan on a wire rack to cool for 15 mins. Then turn out cake on the wire rack to cool completely.
• 7. Whisk together pineapple juice and confectioners sugar and drizzle over cooled cake. sprinkle coconut over glaze.
• 8. Options: You could also add 1 tsp.lime rind to batter and make the glaze using lime juice instead of pineapple to give it a pina colada flavor.

PINEAPPLE COCONUT CAKE

Steps:

• Place egg whites in a large bowl; let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Drain pineapple, reserving 1 cup juice; set aside., Preheat oven to 350°. In a small bowl, combine flour and baking powder. In another bowl, beat egg yolks until slightly thickened. Gradually add 1 cup sugar, beating on high speed until thick and lemon-colored. Beat in butter, extracts and 1/2 cup reserved juice. Add dry ingredients; beat until well blended., Beat egg whites with clean beaters on medium speed until soft peaks form. Gradually add remaining sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating on high until stiff peaks form. Fold into batter., Transfer to two greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake 18-22 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., In a large bowl, beat cream until it begins to thicken. Add 1 cup confectioners' sugar; beat until stiff peaks form. In another bowl, beat cream cheese, pineapple and remaining confectioners' sugar until blended; stir in 2 cups coconut. Fold in whipped cream. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour., Cut each cake horizontally into two layers. Place bottom layer on a serving plate; drizzle with 2 tablespoons reserved juice. Spread with 2 cups mousse. Repeat layers twice. Top with remaining cake layer and drizzle with remaining juice. Spread remaining mousse over top and sides of cake. Press remaining coconut onto top and sides. Refrigerate at least 1 hour before serving.

PINEAPPLE COCONUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9-inch square pans.
• Beat 3/4 cup butter in a bowl using an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Slowly drizzle oil into creamed butter while continuing to beat butter until mixture is smooth. Beat white sugar, 1 cup at a time, into butter mixture until incorporated. Add 2 teaspoons coconut extract and vanilla extract; mix well. Beat eggs, 1 at a time, into butter mixture, beating well until each egg is fully incorporated.
• Mix flour, alternating with coconut milk, into butter mixture, ending with flour until batter is just mixed. Mix 1/2 cup pineapple juice into batter. Pour batter into the prepared pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of each cake comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes.
• Mix confectioners' sugar and 1/4 cup pineapple juice together in a bowl until sugar is dissolved. Beat 1 cup butter into sugar mixture until light and fluffy. Add 1 teaspoon coconut extract; beat until icing is smooth, adding more confectioners' sugar until desired consistency is reached.
• Place 1 cake on a serving platter and top with a layer of icing. Place second cake over icing layer. Cover entire cake with remaining icing. Dust sides of cake with shredded coconut and top with crushed pineapple.

PINEAPPLE-COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Heat oven to 350^. Spread coconut on a pan to toast in oven for about 6 minutes- tossing around after 3 minutes.Set aside. Turn oven to 325 degrees. Spray a 9X5-inch loaf pan generously with non stick cooking spray- Sprinkle just a bit of coconut on the bottom, set aside.
• 2. In a medium mixing bowl mix the flour,baking soda and salt; set aside. In your large mixer bowl cream butter and sugar until fluffy and light. Add eggs ,beating well after each addition. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture alternately with the sour cream- ending with flour mixture.
• 3. Mix just to combine(do not over beat) Fold in pineapple (squeezed dry), and the coconut. Spoon into the prepared pan. Sprinkle top with remaining coconut. Batter will fill the pan -but will not overflow when baked.
• 4. Bake for 65-70 minutes. Check after 45 minutes,Cover pan 1/2 way through baking time). Remove to rack to cool for 15 minutes before removing from pan to cool completely. Store covered at room temperature.

PINEAPPLE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan. Sift together the flour, and baking powder. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream together the shortening, 1 cup butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition, then stir in the vanilla. Add the flour mixture alternately with milk; beat well. Stir in the 3/4 cup crushed pineapple.
• Pour into 10 inch tube pan. Place in cold oven. Turn oven to 325 degrees F (175 degrees C) and bake for 90 minutes or until top springs back when touched. Remove from oven and let stand for 10 minutes. Remove carefully from pan.
• To make the glaze: In a small saucepan, combine 1/4 cup butter, confectioners sugar and 1 cup crushed pineapple. heat and stir until melted. Pour over cake as soon as it comes out of the pan.

COCONUT PINEAPPLE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat the eggs, sugar and vanilla until fluffy. Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt; add to egg mixture alternately with pineapple. Stir in walnuts. , Pour into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack., In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter and confectioners' sugar until smooth. Frost cake. Sprinkle with coconut. Store in the refrigerator.

PINEAPPLE-COCONUT CAKE WITH RUM

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).
• Beat 1 1/2 cups sugar, 1 cup butter, eggs, and vanilla extract together with an electric mixer until well blended. Beat on high speed, scraping the bowl occasionally, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Sift flour and baking powder together in a separate small bowl. Combine milk and 1/3 cup rum in another bowl. Add liquids and flour mixture to sugar mixture alternately, blending well after each addition. Fold in pineapple and coconut gently. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cake begins to pull from the sides of the pan and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes. Remove from the oven, invert onto a plate, and cool for 10 minutes. Poke holes on the top of the cake using a wooden skewer.
• While cake cools, combine 1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup butter, and 1/4 cup water in a saucepan for glaze. Bring to a boil over medium heat and continue to boil, stirring constantly, for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in 1/4 cup rum.
• Pour 1/2 of glaze in the bottom of the Bundt® pan, carefully reinvert the cake back into the pan on top of the glaze. Drizzle remaining glaze onto the bottom of the cake; let sit for 5 to 10 minutes to absorb glaze. Invert cake onto a cake platter.