Pineapple Fruitcake Recipes

HOLIDAY FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°. Combine fruit and nuts. In another bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture and mix well. Pour over fruit and nuts; stir to coat. , Transfer to a greased and floured 10-in. tube pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 2 hours. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Wrap tightly and store in a cool place. Bring to room temperature before serving; slice with a serrated knife.

CRUSHED PINEAPPLE FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• Line an angel food pan with parchment paper and brush with melted butter.
• Cream butter or margarine, and then beat in sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in extract. Mix in flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir in raisins, cherries, pineapple, and mixed peel. Cover bowl and let sit at room temperature, 8 hours to overnight.
• Bake at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) for 2 1/2 hours with a pan of hot water placed on the lowest rack of your oven during baking. Brush warm cake with some melted butter.

LIGHT FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• In large bowl, combine the raisins, cherries, glazed pineapple, mixed glazed fruit, and citron. Mix well. Stir in the brandy to coat the fruit. Cover tightly with plastic wrap. Let stand for about 24 hours to macerate the fruit, stirring occasionally. When ready to mix up the cake, add the coconut and lemon and orange rind. Stir well.
• Prepare 8-inch square fruitcake pan that is 3 inches deep and has a removable bottom: Lightly spray the bottom and sides of the pan with cooking spray. Line the pan (bottom and sides), with brown paper or double thickness of parchment paper. Lightly spray the paper.
• Preheat oven to 275°F.
• In large bowl of stand mixer and using the paddle attachment, beat the butter until creamy. Gradually add the sugar and beat until mixture is light and creamy. Beat in the egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping the sides of the bowl with a spatula to ensure ingredients are all incorporated. Beat 1 additional minute. Beat in the vanilla, almond, and lemon flavorings. Stir in the drained crushed pineapple.
• Sift together 2¾ cups of the flour, baking powder, and salt.
• In measuring cup or small bowl, combine the orange and lemon juices along with the reserved ¼ cup of pineapple juice.
• Add the dry and wet ingredients to the beaten butter and sugar mixture in three additions, starting and ending with the flour mixture. Transfer batter to a very large bowl.
• Sprinkle reserved cup of flour over the macerated fruit and toss ingredients lightly and quickly. Gently fold the fruit mixture into the batter.
• In clean bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff but not dry. Gently fold the whipped egg whites into the batter.
• Transfer batter by large spoonfuls into the prepared baking pan. Use a knife to evenly spread the batter in the pan, smoothing the top. Add a few cherries as decorations to the top of the cake, if desired.
• Place small pan of hot water on the lower rack in the oven. Place fruitcake in center of middle rack and bake for approximately 5 - 5¼ hours or until cake is firm to the touch and cake tester inserted into centre of cake comes out clean. After about an hour or so of baking, loosely tent cake with tin foil to prevent it from browning too much. Remove cake from oven and place on rack. Let cake cool in pan for about 40 minutes before carefully removing from pan by inverting it on a tea towel and removing the paper. Carefully turn the cake top side up on to a wire cooling rack.
• Let cake cool completely before brushing well with brandy and wrapping in brandy-soaked cheesecloth, followed by plastic wrap and tin foil. Store in a sealed plastic bag in a cool, dry area. Remove wrapping and brush cake top and sides with brandy once a week for 2-3 weeks as the cake "ages" before cutting and serving.

EASIEST EVER PINEAPPLE CAKE (5 INGREDIENTS)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 9x13 pan.
• Combine flour, sugar and baking soda in a bowl and mix well.
• Stir in eggs and pineapple until very well mixed. Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake 28-32 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Do not overcook.
• Top with cream cheese frosting or whipped cream.

CHERRY PINEAPPLE FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine the cherries, pineapple, pecans and 1 cup flour; set aside. In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Beat in vanilla. Combine baking powder and remaining flour; gradually add to creamed mixture. Fold in fruit mixture., Spoon into a greased and waxed paper-lined 10-in. tube pan. Bake at 300° for 1-3/4 to 2 hours or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Remove waxed paper while warm; cool completely before slicing.

PINEAPPLE FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• Put in pan crushed pineapple and juice, butter, raisins, sugar, spice, bicarbonate soda and pinch of salt.
• Boil for 10 minutes, watch that it does not boil over with the bicarbonate of soda in it!
• Cool and then add the beaten eggs and flours.
• Put into an 8x8-inch tin that has been lined with baking paper.
• Bake at 350°F for approximately 1 hour.

BOILED PINEAPPLE FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• Line a round cake tin (about 20cm round) with greaseproof paper, bringing the paper about 5cm above the edge of the tin.Combine the pineapple (with tin juice), fruit, butter, sugar, spice and soda in a saucepan.Stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved then bring to the boil and boil uncovered for 3 minutes.Allow the mixture to cool. When cold, add eggs and sifted flours and mix well. Spread into the prepared tin.Bake in a moderately slow oven for 1 to 2 hours.When the cake is cooked (test by sticking a skewer in - if it comes out with sticky mix on it, leave for another 10 minutes) - cover and leave in the tin to become cold.Remove from tin and either serve straight away or leave the paper on and refrigerate in an airtight container for up to a week.

PINEAPPLE FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• 1. mixflour, eggs, both sugars,and 1 stick butter in a large bowl
• 2. add in can of crushed pineapple, juice included and stir until mixed. sweetened coconut can also be added to batter....makes it even more sinfulicious
• 3. pour batter into a greased/floured cake pan.....I prefer a 8 1/2 x 16 pan
• 4. bake in oven set at 425 until browned.....approx. 35 minutes
• 5. in a separate bowl, mix cream cheese, remaining butter, lemon extract, and confectioners sugar until smooth
• 6. after cake is done, let cool and spread icing on top....then sprinkle crushed or broken walnuts over top.....you can leave out nuts also.....your preference.
• 7. invite friends or family over to enjoy a fun, delicious treat!!!!!