Coconut Pineapple Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Perfect for picnics, the Wilton Cake Cover lets you bring along the dessert intact and keep it fresh for days. Designed to fit the 9 x 13 in. Performance Pan, this see-through cover lets everyone get their appetite set.

Source: Entertaining - Appetizers to Desserts

Tools:

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 3/4 cup buttermilk
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 1 (8 oz.) can crushed pineapple drained
  • 1 1/2 cups coconut
  • 3 cups confectioner's sugar sifted
  • 4 ounces cream cheese softened
  • 5 tablespoons butter
  • 1 tablespoon milk
  • 1 1/2 cups coconut toasted

Makes: Cake serves 16.


instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour Wilton 9 x 13 in. Sheet Pan.

Mix flour, baking soda, and salt. In a separate bowl, whisk oil, buttermilk, eggs and vanilla.

Add sugar, pineapple and coconut; mix well. Stir in flour mixture. Pour into prepared pan.

Bake on center rack for 30-35 minutes or until an inserted cake tester comes out clean. Cool.

In a small bowl, combine all frosting ingredients. Beat until smooth. Spread over cooled cake. Garnish with toasted coconut if desired.

To toast coconut, spread 1 1/2 cups coconut on a cookie sheet, toast in a preheated 350°F oven for 3-5 minutes.

Watch closely; coconut burns easily. This amount of frosting (2 1/3 cups) will ice the top with a thin layer.

Double amount of frosting if you wish to garnish with border or have a thicker layer of icing on cake.

Pipe tip #10 bead border after adding toasted coconut.