The Easiest 5 Ingredient Pineapple Cake Recipe

This 5 Ingredient Pineapple Cake is a straightforward dessert that solely makes use of a couple of pantry staples that you simply in all probability have available. You’ll be able to combine up the recipe in simply 5 minutes!

5 Ingredient Pineapple Cake Recipe

I’ll confess, I used to make a TON of desserts. You could find just about all of the recipes right here on the weblog. I positively had a candy tooth and it confirmed.

However consider it or not, I give up sugar over 10 years in the past and haven’t appeared again. Now we solely make desserts every now and then and often largely for the youngsters to have a deal with.

I used to be hardly ever making any desserts not too long ago however we made a cope with the youngsters…in the event that they did a great job on faculty throughout the week, I’d make them a dessert to get pleasure from over the weekend.

So though we haven’t been large on desserts these days, I do have a couple of new recipes that I wish to share with you from issues that we ARE making!

This recipe is customized from a recipe in Mennonite Country Style Recipes Cookbook. One in every of my favourite cookbooks!

Why We Love This Recipe

This recipe could be very simple to make and takes benefit of some comfort meals. You’ll be able to completely make the cake combine from scratch and use your individual home-canned pineapple to keep away from any pre-boxed/canned merchandise if you wish to!

This can be a enjoyable dessert to make if you desire a dessert however wish to spend little or no palms on time making it.

Components in Pineapple Cake

• Brown Sugar.
• Water. This one doesn’t rely towards our 5 ingredient whole as a result of though it’s an addition, it’s not one other product you need to purchase. Possibly that doesn’t rely…it’s nonetheless a simple recipe!
• Crushed Pineapple. I wish to top off on this at Aldi once I’m in a city that has one. They’ve a canned model that doesn’t have components like sugar.
• Cake Combine. You should utilize selfmade or you need to use one from the shop. To make this recipe I’m utilizing the boxed gluten free cake combine from Aldi. I’ve a recipe for Homemade Cake Mix in my book.
• Butter. You’ll be able to exchange this with a buttery unfold if it is advisable for dairy free.
• Shredded Coconut. That is our topping! You could possibly in all probability go with out it nevertheless it provides a pleasant additional taste for those who like coconut.

FAQs About Pineapple Cake

Can I exploit contemporary pineapple as a substitute of canned?

Sure, you may! Simply minimize up your contemporary pineapple after which run the items via the meals processor or blender to have “crushed pineapple” for this recipe.

What makes a cake heavy or mild?

Including an excessive amount of liquid or not baking a cake lengthy sufficient will make it dense. Additionally including in too many add-ins may make it dense if you don’t prepare dinner it lengthy sufficient.

Are you able to make chunk pineapple into crushed?

Sure, with only a few spins round your meals processor or blender, you may flip chunk pineapple into crushed pineapple if that’s all you have got available.

What to Serve With Pineapple Cake

You’ll be able to serve this recipe with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or with whipped cream. It’s good heat or chilly and with or with none additional toppings!

Directions for Making Pineapple Cake

In a small bowl, mix the brown sugar and water. My stainless-steel kettle is from Libby’s and I adore it! They’ve some related ones on Amazon here.

Pour the combination into the underside of a greased 9×13 baking dish.

Add the can of (undrained) pineapple excessive of the brown sugar.

Sprinkle the coconut flakes excessive of all the cake.

Sprinkle the cake combine over the moist components evenly. Don’t combine the components.

Slice the butter and place the items over the combination.

Bake the cake at 350 levels for 50 minutes within the oven or till the cake appears agency and completed or till a toothpick comes out clear. Cool barely and serve!

The way to Take The Pineapple Cake to the Subsequent Degree

When you have the time you may make these minor tweaks to the unique cake recipe to make it style even higher!

• Use toasted coconut as a substitute of standard coconut.
• Add some chopped pecans or different chopped nuts if you add the coconut for a extra basic spin on this recipe.
• Add a couple of cherries to the highest of the cake with the crushed pineapple to make a cherry pineapple dump cake.

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Gluten Free 5 Ingredient Pineapple Cake

Use a gluten free cake combine (like I did) rather than an everyday cake combine to make this recipe gluten free.

Dairy Free 5 Ingredient Pineapple Cake

Use a buttery unfold (I used Earth Steadiness) rather than butter to make this cake dairy free.

This can be a scrumptious cake that takes on all the pineapple juices to provide it a pineapple taste whereas the coconut provides a little bit additional taste to make you are feeling such as you discovered a tropical trip dessert. It’s much like many different dump cake recipes with a couple of additional additions to take it to the subsequent degree.

Retailer any leftovers that you’ve in an hermetic container within the fridge or on the countertop.

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