Name: Pineapple Coconut Cake Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 28 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 2 cups all purpose flour; 1 lime; 1¼ tsp Baking Soda; 1¼ tsp baking powder; ½ cup flaked sweetened coconut; ½ cup pecans; ⅔ cup Bananas; 1 cup crushed pineapple; 2 eggs; ¼ cup oil; ½ cup white sugar; ⅓ cup brown sugar; For Lime Frosting:; 4 oz cream cheese; 2 oz butter; 2 cups powdered sugar; 1 lime

Pineapple Coconut Cake Recipe

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.

Preparation: 15 minutes

Cooking: 28 minutes

Total: 43 minutes

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

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9×9-inch pan.
Using a zester, zest the green skin from the lime.
In a small bowl combine flour, lime zest, baking soda, baking powder, coconut, pecans, and a pinch of salt.
In a medium bowl, whisk together bananas, pineapple, eggs, white sugar, brown sugar, oil, and 1 teaspoon of lime juice.
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.
With the mixer on medium-low, cream together cream cheese and butter. Add in lime zest and 1 teaspoon lime juice.
Mix in powdered sugar a bit at a time until incorporated. Beat on medium until fluffy.
Spread over cooled snack caked and cut into 12 bars.