How To Make Pineapple Coconut Cake
Delight in some sweet tropical flavors with this pineapple coconut cake. It’s baked with bananas and pecans, then finished with lime frosting.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2cupsall purpose flour
- 1lime
- 1¼tspbaking soda
- 1¼tspbaking powder
- ½cupflaked sweetened coconut
- ½cuppecans,chopped
- ⅔cupbananas,(2 small), mashed
- 1cupcrushed pineapple,undrained
- 2eggs
- ¼cupoil
- ½cupwhite sugar
- ⅓cupbrown sugar,packed
For Lime Frosting:
- 4ozcream cheese,softened
- 2ozbutter,softened
- 2cupspowdered sugar
- 1lime,zested and juiced
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9×9-inch pan.
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Using a zester, zest the green skin from the lime.
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In a small bowl combine flour, lime zest, baking soda, baking powder, coconut, pecans, and a pinch of salt.
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In a medium bowl, whisk together bananas, pineapple, eggs, white sugar, brown sugar, oil, and 1 teaspoon of lime juice.
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Combine the wet and dry ingredients just until combined (do not overmix). Pour into prepared pan and bake for 28 for 32 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool completely.
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With the mixer on medium-low, cream together cream cheese and butter. Add in lime zest and 1 teaspoon lime juice.
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Mix in powdered sugar a bit at a time until incorporated. Beat on medium until fluffy.
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Spread over cooled snack caked and cut into 12 bars.
Nutrition
- Calories: 379.68kcal
- Fat: 16.66g
- Saturated Fat: 6.10g
- Trans Fat: 0.18g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 6.70g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.71g
- Carbohydrates: 55.60g
- Fiber: 2.09g
- Sugar: 35.62g
- Protein: 4.44g
- Cholesterol: 47.21mg
- Sodium: 217.29mg
- Calcium: 65.90mg
- Potassium: 152.21mg
- Iron: 1.55mg
- Vitamin A: 79.51µg
- Vitamin C: 11.06mg
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