Pineapple-Almond-Coconut Cake
 
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Serves: 6-8
Ingredients
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • ½ cup almond meal
  • 1 tbsp baking powder
  • pinch of salt
  • 4 large eggs
  • 2 sticks butter
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 4 tbsp of milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • For the syrup:
  • 1½ water
  • ½ cup honey
  • 1 cup coconut powder
  • 1 cup fresh pineapple juice
  • ½ tsp fresh cardamom powder
To Garnish
  • Thinly sliced pineapple baked in a 300 degree oven for 2-3 hours and left in the oven slightly open overnight.
  • Mildly sweetened whipped cream.
Instructions
  1. In a pan on medium flame add all the ingredients for the SYRUP except the cardamom and boil for 15 minutes. Take off the stove and add the cardamom powder, let cool.
  2. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
  3. In a mixing bowl, whip the butter till light and fluffy. Add sugar ¼ cup at a time and beat well.
  4. Add one egg at a time along with vanilla extract and beat well.
  5. Mix the dry ingredients well. Fold it in the butter mixture and do not over mix.
  6. Bake the cake in a 2 ,8" baking pan anywhere from 35-40 minutes depending on how your oven works. Mine took 40 minutes. Check with a skewer.
  7. Let cool the cake for 20 minutes. VERY IMPORTANT TO COOL THE CAKE.
  8. Pierce both the cakes with wooden toothpick randomly. Take a cake plate or pedestal and keep one sheet cake on it, and drown it with the beautiful SYRUP,making sure to mix the syrup well before pouring, because the coconut tends to float. Now soak the other cake also and be careful to flip the soaked side to the soaked side on the pedestal. The top should be dry. Be careful and gently when you flip to stack it on top of that cake.
  9. Let the cake sit for 2 hours before frosting.
  10. Most importantly, frost the cake just before serving.
  11. Or you could serve the whipping cream on the side.
  12. Garnish with dried pineapple chips.
  13. ENJOY!!
Recipe by Food Fashion Party at https://www.foodfashionparty.com/2016/04/16/pineapple-almond-coconut-honey-syrup-cake/