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Pineapple Coconut Cake

Pineapple Coconut Cake

This recipe from Vincent Williams, a top-18 winner in the Create Cooking Challenge: My Family's Recipe, is a popular cake in the southern U.S. with many variations. Vincent remembers his mother making this cake during the holidays and for special occasions.

Recipe Ingredients

  • Yellow Cake (yields 2-3, eight-inch cakes)
  • - 2 cups of all purpose flour
  • - 1 teaspoon salt
  • - 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • - 3 large eggs
  • - 1/2 cup butter
  • - 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • - 1 cup buttermilk
  • Pineapple Filling
  • - 20 ounce can crushed pineapple
  • - 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • - 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • Boiled Icing:
  • - 2 1/2 cups of sugar
  • - 1/2 cup water
  • - 4 tablespoons of light corn syrup
  • - 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
  • - 6 large egg white
  • - 1 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
  • - pinch of salt

Recipe Instructions

Yellow Cake

- Mix ingredients until mixture is creamy, coat the bottom of your cake pan with butter and then dust with a little flour. This will help with removing the cake from the pan. Bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes or until toothpick comes out of cake clean. Remove from cake pans after letting cake cool.

Pineapple Filling

- Stir ingredients and let rest until brown sugar dissolves.

Boiled Icing

- Separate egg whites into a clean dry bowl. Oil will cause your egg whites not to rise properly. Add pinch of salt to egg whites, then mix egg white until you reach soft peaks. Then start on your syrup.

- In a nonstick pan, Mix and stir the sugar, water, corn syrup, cream of tartar and vanilla.

- Cover your pan and set temperature to medium high and bring mixture to a boil. (DON’T STIR WHILE MIXTURE IS BOILING)

- Mixture is ready when temperature reaches 245 degrees F. Or when strings form when mixture is lifted with a spoon..

- Slowly pour syrup mixture into egg whites, while mixing egg whites. Continue mixing for 8-10 min until stiff peaks form. Frosting should become glossy. (You may not need to use all of the syrup The frosting will thicken up as it cools.

Layer

- Add your pineapple filling between your cake layers.

- Frost your cake,

- Garnish with shredded coconuts.