Nanny's Famous Coconut-Pineapple Cake

Name: Nanny's Famous Coconut-Pineapple Cake
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 355 milliliters butter or margarine, softened; 710 milliliters cake flour, sifted; 170 grams package frozen flaked coconut, thawed; 5 larges eggs; 1 teaspoon lemon extract; 118 milliliters lemon-lime soft drink; 1 sprig Garnish: fresh mint; 432 grams crushed pineapple in juice, undrained; 710 milliliters sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

One portion of this dish contains about 8g of protein, 36g of fat, and a total of 735 calories. This recipe serves 10. This recipe covers 9% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes. A mixture of pineapple in juice, sugar, lemon extract, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty.

Instructions

Grease bottom and sides of 3 (9-inch) round cakepans; line bottoms with wax paper. Grease and flour wax paper.

Ingredients you will need

All Purpose Flour

Equipment you will use

Wax Paper

Drain pineapple, reserving 3/4 cup juice.

Ingredients you will need

Pineapple

Juice

Remove 1/4 cup reserved juice for Cream Cheese Frosting, and reserve crushed pineapple for Pineapple Filling.

Ingredients you will need

Cream Cheese Frosting

Crushed Pineapple

Pineapple

Juice

Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating well.

Ingredients you will need

Butter

Sugar

Equipment you will use

Hand Mixer

Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition.

Ingredients you will need

Egg

Combine 1/2 cup reserved pineapple juice and soft drink.

Ingredients you will need

Pineapple Juice

Pop

Add flour to butter mixture alternately with juice mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Beat at low speed until blended after each addition. Stir in extracts.

Ingredients you will need

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Juice

Pour into prepared cakepans.

Bake at 350 for 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.

Equipment you will use

Oven