Pineapple Arugula Macadamia Nut Recipes

PINEAPPLE-MACADAMIA NUT PIE

Steps:

• Cream together butter and sugar.
• Add eggs one at a time and continue beating.
• Add corn syrup, flour, rum extract, pineapple and nuts.
• Pour into pie shell and bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes or until firm.
• Allow to cool before serving.

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.

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 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 NUT MERINGUE PIES

Steps:

• Make pastry:
• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375°F. Toast nuts in 1 layer in a shallow baking pan in oven, stirring once or twice, until golden, about 5 minutes. Cool completely in pan on a rack. Coarsely chop 1/4 cup nuts and set aside.
• Pulse flour, sugar, salt, and remaining 1/2 cup nuts in a food processor until nuts are finely chopped, then add butter and pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add egg and process until dough begins to come together into a ball but is still crumbly. Form dough into a ball with your hands. Press about 1 tablespoon dough evenly over bottom and up side of each pie plate. Chill shells until firm, about 30 minutes.
• Lightly prick bottoms and sides of chilled pie shells all over with a fork.
• Bake until edges are golden and bottoms are pale golden, 12 to 15 minutes.
• Cool completely in pans on racks. Loosen edges of shells carefully with offset spatula, then carefully remove shells from pans and transfer to a shallow baking pan. Sprinkle chopped nuts into bottoms of shells. Leave oven on.
• Make filling:
• Simmer butter, pineapple, brown sugar, and lemon juice in a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until most of liquid is evaporated and pineapple is slightly translucent, about 10 minutes.
• Cool slightly, then spoon a heaping tablespoon of filling into each shell.
• Make meringue topping:
• Beat whites with cream of tartar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at high speed until they just hold soft peaks. Gradually beat in sugar and beat until meringue holds stiff, glossy peaks. Spoon about 2 tablespoons meringue over filling of each pie, covering filling completely and sealing meringue to pastry.
• Draw meringue up into small peaks and bake until tops are golden in spots, about 5 minutes.
• Cool pies on racks, about 30 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.

PINEAPPLE AND MACADAMIA SHORTBREAD

Steps:

• preheat oven to 325.
• combine flour and sugar.
• cut in butter until mixture resembles fine crumbs and starts to cling.
• stir in nuts and pineapple.
• form into ball, knead until smooth.
• on a lightly floured surface roll dough 1/4 inch thick.
• using a 2 inch cookie cutter cut into shapes.
• reroll scrapes only twice.
• place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
• bake 15-20 minutes.
• transfer to wire rack.