Pineapple Cake by Tahira Mateen

Ghazala | October 23, 2011 | 0 Comments | 610 views

Pineapple Cake and Piña Colada

Ingredients for Sponge Cake:

Flour – 4 ounce / 1 cup
Eggs – 4
Ground sugar – 4 ounce / ½ cup
Salt – 1 pinch
Vanilla essence – 1 tsp

Method:
With an electric mixer, whisk eggs and sugar on HIGH speed for about 5 to 7mins, until the batter doubles in volume. Then add vanilla essence. Then add sifted flour, into the batter. With a spatula, gently fold in the flour until it’s well blended. Pour the batter into the Greased “8 cake pan, and bake on Pre-heat oven to 200ºC and gas mark 7 for 15 to 18 minutes. When it’s done, let it cool down completely and cut in 2 layers. Then apply pineapple juice in layers, then place pineapple chunks and cream mix. and decorate with cream. Cut in pieces and decorate with cherries, pineapple slices and serve.

Ingredients for icing:

Whipped cream – 600ml

Icing sugar – 3 tbsp

Pineapple juice – ½ cup

Pineapple chunks – ½ cup

Cherries – as required

Method:

Beat cream, when starts to thicken, add icing sugar and beat until stiff. Then add ½ cup whipped cream in pineapple chunks and mix well. Decorate cake with whipped cream, pineapple rings, cherries and serve.