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Pina Colada Pineapple Pound Cake with Rum & Butter Glaze


Pina Colada Pineapple Pound Cake. A buttery pound cake peppered with toasted coconut & recent pineapple, soaked with rum and lined in a rum and butter glaze.

Piña Colada Pineapple Pound Cake close up photo of a single slice on a white plate

Pina Colada Pineapple Pound Cake

Initially posted March 2019.

Partner’s birthday was this previous week and this Pina Colada Pineapple Pound Cake was really her birthday cake for the celebration.

She had requested one thing easy and this was an thought I’d had for a while utilizing my Greatest Vanilla Pound Cake Recipe as a base.

Now was the time for an experiment.

I had some recent golden pineapple within the fridge leftover from a fruit salad, so I diced that small to duplicate crushed pineapple.

Fresh Golden Pineapple cut in pieces on white background.

Recent golden pineapple works very effectively on this recipe.

I’m not a fan of tinned fruit however you could possibly use it in a pinch, simply make sure it is extremely, very effectively drained.

Use a sieve to empty it and press the crushed pineapple the underside to squeeze out the surplus juice.

Pina Colada Pineapple Pound Cake

Pina Colada Pineapple Pound Cake

You could possibly use plain dried coconut on this recipe however on this event, for further flavour, Partner prompt toasting the coconut.  I believe it really works notably effectively on this recipe.

Desiccated coconut in white ceramic bowl.

Tremendous or medium reduce, desiccated (dried) coconut is greatest on this recipe. Toast it for much more flavour..

Toasted coconut positively does add a special, extra intense flavour component than simply plain coconut.

Pina Colada Pineapple Pound Cake, including the rum!

Lastly, we soaked some rum into the cake and let it relaxation all the subsequent day earlier than including the rum & butter glaze earlier than serving.

Bacardi amber rum

Amber or gentle (clear) rum is most well-liked over darkish rum for this recipe.

I at all times discover that pound cake shouldn’t be the very best on it’s first day anyway. I at all times prefer it higher the day after baking and that is notably essential with this recipe.

That’s for two causes, to let the cake settle into its correct texture and to permit the rum to soak up evenly all through the cake.

Pina Colada Pineapple Pound Cake

Pina Colada Pineapple Pound Cake

We despatched a few of the leftover Pina Colada Pineapple Pound Cake to a associates home the following day and their household liked the flavour mixture too.

Leftovers pretty much as good as the primary day.

On the third day, we took the remainder of the cake to dinner at one other associates home the place we served it on the finish of a giant Indian meals dinner.

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Pina Colada Pineapple Pound Cake. an ideal finish to a scrumptious dinner.

That dinner featured my recipes for Butter Rooster  and an awesome facet dish the place we included some grilled greens into my model of Coconut Chickpea Korma.

Of course we served all of it up with rice and tender do-it-yourself Naan Bread. The cake was the right candy finish to this spicy, scrumptious feast.

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Prep Time:
half-hour

Cook dinner Time:
1 hour half-hour

Whole Time:
2 hours

Pina Colada Pineapple Pound Cake. A buttery pound cake peppered with toasted coconut & recent pineapple, soaked with rum and lined in a rum and butter glaze.

Elements

  • 1 pound butter at room temperature, 2 cups
  • 2¼ cups white sugar
  • 2  tsp good high quality vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp coconut extract, non-obligatory
  • 4 further massive eggs at room temperature, or 5 massive
  • 1½ cups sifted all objective flour
  • 1½ cups sifted cake flour
  • 1  tsp baking powder
  • 3/4  cup toasted coconut
  • 1 cup undiluted evaporated milk, use it straight from the can
  • 1 cup recent pineapple, finely diced
  • 4 ounces rum, non-obligatory

For the Rum & Butter Glaze

  • 1/3 cup delicate butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 cups icing sugar, powdered sugar
  • 3 tbsp of darkish rum, roughly

Directions

  1. This cake is baked in an oven that begins chilly, so there is not any have to preheat it. Grease a bundt pan very effectively and frivolously mud it with flour. You too can use 2 normal loaf pans which were frivolously greased and lined with parchment paper.
  2. Within the bowl of an electrical mixer cream the butter, sugar and vanilla & coconut extract very effectively, for a minimum of 10 -Quarter-hour. The purpose is to include as a lot air as doable into the creamed base of the batter. Scrape the perimeters and the underside of the bowl a number of occasions in the course of the creaming course of.
  3. Add the eggs, one by one and beat for a minimum of a minute or two earlier than including the following egg.
  4. Sift collectively the flour, cake flour, toasted coconut and baking powder.
  5. Fold the dry components into the creamed combination alternately with the undiluted evaporated milk. All the time start and finish the folding course of with the dry components. As a common rule, I add the dry components in three parts and the milk in two parts.
  6. With the final addition of milk, fold within the pineapple as effectively.
  7. Spoon the batter into the ready pan/s, spreading the highest with the again of a spoon to degree it.

To bake the cake

  1. Place in a chilly oven and switch the temperature to 325 levels Baking occasions will range on the dimensions of the cake pans. My bundt pan took 1 hour and half-hour. Loaf pans must be checked after an hour. As at all times, let the wood toothpick or skewer take a look at be your information. Insert a wood toothpick or skewer into the middle of the cake and when it comes out clear the cake is completed. Watch it carefully and solely add further time in 5 minute intervals, checking with a clear toothpick every time, in order that you’ll not over bake the cake.
  2. Let the cake/s relaxation within the pans for 10 – Quarter-hour earlier than turning onto a wire rack to chill fully.
  3. When fully cool return the cake to the pan, that you’ve got lined with plastic wrap so as to soak the cake in rum. This step is non-obligatory in the event you do not like rum or desire to not.
  4. Utilizing a wood skewer, poke small holes all around the floor of the cake and slowly spoon about 4 ounces(or lesof rum over the floor, immediately over all of the holes.
  5. Cowl and let the cake relaxation for a complete day earlier than including the glaze and serving.

To organize the glaze.

  1. Cream collectively the butter, ing sugar and vanilla.
  2. Start including the rum, a bit at a time till the frosting turns the consistency of a thick glaze.
  3. Spoon over the pound cake.
  4. You should use much less rum and maintain it as a frosting in the event you desire however you’ll most likely have to double the recipe to cowl a complete bundt cake.

Notes

To toast coconut simply sprinkle the dried coconut in a cake pan and bake at 350 levels for about 5 minutes or till it begins to color. Give it a toss a few occasions because it browns.

I am not a fan of tinned fruit however you could possibly use it in a pinch, simply make sure it is extremely, very effectively drained. Use a sieve to empty it and press the crushed pineapple the underside to squeeze out the surplus juice.

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Diet Info

Yield

16

Serving Measurement

g

Quantity Per Serving

Energy 576Saturated Fats 19gLdl cholesterol 114mgSodium 273mgCarbohydrates 64gFiber 1gSugar 45gProtein 5g

The dietary data offered is routinely calculated by third social gathering software program and is supposed as a suggestion solely. Actual accuracy shouldn’t be assured. For recipes the place all components is probably not used solely, reminiscent of these with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for instance, calorie & dietary values per serving will probably be considerably decrease than indicated.


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