Pineapple Macadamia Cake Food

PINEAPPLE MACADAMIA FRUIT CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Place dried pineapple in a small container and microwave for a minute or so to heat it, then add rum and toss together. Cover well and set aside for an hour or so that it can absorb the rum and make as candied.
• 2. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs one at the time and cream into butter mixture to blend well. Cut nuts and fruit into medium pieces, combine and flour with 1/2 cup of the flour, toss. Sift remaining flour and baking powder together. Fold into egg and butter mixture. Add Cream of Coconut and flavorings; mix well. Add nuts and fruit and fold in carefully.
• 3. Pour into a greased and paper-lined plain tube pan. Place in COLD oven and bake at 250 degrees for 3 hours. Cool slightly and remove carefully from pan onto a wire rack to cool completely.
• 4. Store in closely covered container. It is best sliced cold or with an extremely sharp knife to avoid tearing the cake.

PINEAPPLE MACADAMIA NUT CAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 9x9-inch pan.
• In a large bowl, mix flour, sugar, pudding mix, baking powder and salt.
• Make a well in the center and add shortening, eggs, pineapple, ½ cup of rum and vanilla.
• Beat until smooth.
• Stir in macadamia nuts.
• Bake at 350 degrees F for 45 to 55 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean.
• While cake is still very warm, poke holes all over top of cake with toothpick.
• Slowly spoon glaze onto cake.
• Cake will be very moist.
• Let stand for at least 15 minutes to absorb glaze.
• Best served while still warm.
• Place water, butter, and ½ cup of sugar in small sauce pan.
• Boil 3 minutes.
• Remove from heat and add ¼ cup of rum.

PINEAPPLE & MACADAMIA NUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Combine cake mix, pineapple juice, oil and eggs; beat on low speed for 30 seconds. Beat on medium for 2 minutes. Pour into three greased and floured 8-in. round baking pans., Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 25-30 minutes. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., For filling, combine sugar and flour in a large saucepan. Whisk in egg yolks, butter and pineapple until blended. Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook and stir until thickened and bubbly, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat; cool to room temperature. Reserve 1/3 cup pineapple mixture for frosting; gently stir nuts into remaining pineapple mixture., Place one cake layer on a serving plate; spread with half of the filling. Repeat. Top with remaining cake layer., For frosting, cream butter, confectioners' sugar, reserved pineapple mixture and enough milk to reach a spreading consistency. Spread over top and sides of cake. If desired, chop and toast additional nuts; sprinkle on top and around bottom of cake.

PINEAPPLE MACADAMIA POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Combine dried pineapple and boiling water in a small bowl; let stand 15 minutes; drain thoroughly and blot dry.
• If pineapple pieces are large, cut them into 1/2-inch pieces.
• Heat oven to 325°.
• Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
• Beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer on high speed until light, 3 minutes; add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition; reduce mixer to low speed; add milk, rum, and vanilla; add flour mixture, mix just until combined; fold in pineapple and nuts with a spatula.
• Grease and flour an 8 1/2" x 4 1'2" loaf pan; transfer batter to pan; bake until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1 1/2 hours.
• Cool in the pan 10 minutes; loosen cake from the sides of the pan with a flexible knife; invert onto a wire rack and cool completely before slicing.

PINEAPPLE CHEESECAKE BAR

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine flour, sugar, and butter until mixture is crumbly. Spread evenly into a 13 by 9-inch baking pan with raised sides. Press down until an 1/8 of an inch thick and bake for 10 to 15 minutes or until edges are golden brown.
• Mix cream cheese and 1 cup powdered sugar until frosting texture. Add egg, sugar, crushed pineapple and vanilla extract, mix thoroughly. Fold 1/4 cup white chocolate chips and 1/4 cup chopped macadamia nuts reserving 1/4 cup of each. Bake for additional 15 to 20 minutes or until batter is set. Remove from oven, melt reserved white chocolate chips and drizzle on top and sprinkle with 1/4 cup reserved chopped macadamia nuts. Let stand for 1 hour and cut into bars.

PINEAPPLE MACADAMIA NUT LOAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• In a large bowl, combine sugar, eggs, oil, pineapple juice and pineapple.
• Mix well.
• Sift together baking powder and flour.
• Stir flour mixture into pineapple mixture.
• Fold in Macadamia nuts.
• Pour batter into greased pan.
• Bake in preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into center of loaf comes out clean.
• Makes one 9x5 loaf.

PINEAPPLE,MACADAMIA AND COCONUT CAKE

Steps:

• Beat sugar and eggs until thick and creamy.
• Mix nuts and pineapple together.
• Add to egg and sugar mixture.
• Add flour and beat well.
• Grease and flour a ring tin.
• Spoon in mixture, sprinkle with coconut.
• Bake 180 C for 40 - 45 minutes till golden.
• Frost if desired.

PINEAPPLE SAGE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• Grease and flour four miniature loaf pans*.
• Cream the butter and sugar until very light and fluffy.
• Beat in the honey.
• Add the eggs one at a time, making sure to beat for one minute after each addition.
• Beat in the sage leaves, flowers, lemon peel, and crushed pineapple.
• Stir the dry ingredients together and add to the butter mixture.
• Fold these together gently, until just blended.
• Pour into loaf pans.
• Bake for approximately 45 minutes, or until golden brown (wooden pick inserted into center will come out clean).
• Cool on a rack for 10 minutes, then turn out of pans and continue to cool.
• *Iused a regular size loaf pan just bake a little longer till brown and cake tester come out clean.

PINEAPPLE UPSIDE-DOWN CAKENULLWITH MACADAMIA NUTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Melt 6 tablespoons butter in 9-inch-diameter cake pan with 2-inch-high sides set atop burner on medium-low heat. Stir in sugar, nuts, cherries and ginger. Cook until sugar mixture bubbles, stirring often, about 6 minutes. Cool slightly. Arrange pineapple pieces, overlapping slightly and in concentric circles, over sugar mixture. Set aside.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat 3/4 cup sugar and orange peel in large bowl until fragrant. Beat in 6 tablespoons butter until light. Beat in yolks 1 at a time. Beat in lemon juice and vanilla. Beat in flour mixture alternately with buttermilk.
• Using clean dry beaters, beat egg whites in another large bowl until soft peaks form. Add 2 tablespoons sugar and beat until firm peaks form. Fold into batter. Spoon into pan atop pineapple.
• Bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Transfer to rack; cool 5 minutes. Invert onto platter. Serve with whipped cream.