Tropical Pound Cake Recipes

TROPICAL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325.
• Grease a 12-cup Bundt pan. Lightly dust with flour.
• Whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl until mixed well.
• Beat together butter and sugar in a second bowl until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Mix together sour cream (or yogurt), pineapple, and lime rind in a small bowl.
• On low speed, beat flour mixture into butter mixture in 3 additions, alternating with the sour cream (yogurt) mixture, starting and ending with the flour mixture.
• Add coconut and vanilla extracts.
• Beat on medium speed for 3 minutes.
• Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in 325-degree oven for 60 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Transfer pan to wire rack and cool for 20 minutes.
• Remove from pan and let cool completely.
• Glaze:.
• Whisk together lime juice and confectioner's sugar in small bowl until good drizzling consistency.
• Drizzle over cake and garnish with desired toppings.

TROPICAL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Spray loaf pan with cooking spray and preheat oven to 350°F.
• Combine cake mix, milk, bananas and eggs and mix well.
• Stir in coconut and pour into pan.
• Bake for 55-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• NOTE: Very pretty topped with sliced kiwifruit, vanilla ice cream and pineapple or apricot preserves or orange marmalade.

TROPICAL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Place the coconut in a shallow pan and bake 5 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until golden.
• In a large nonreactive bowl, with an electric mixer on medium-high speed, cream sugar and butter about 1 minute or until well blended.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• By hand, blend in flour, soda, sour cream, vanilla, rum extract, lemon rind and 1/4 cup reserved pineapple juice.
• Mix well.
• Blend in toasted coconut, drained pineapple, mashed bananas and dates. (The mixture will be fairly thick.)
• To make topping: In a small bowl, blend all topping ingredients together.
• Spoon cake batter into a lightly greased and floured 8-inch Bundt pan; sprinkle topping mixture over batter and bake 1 hour and 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on a wire rack.
• Remove from pan and slice.

TROPICAL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Spray a bundt cake pan with oil; dust it with flour or powdered sugar.
• 2. With a mixer, cream together the tub of pineapple cream cheese and the eggs until smooth. Add to the creamed mixture the cake mix, creme of coconut, oil, and sugar. Mix for 1 minute and scrap down sides of bowl. Then continue to mix 2 minutes on medium speed. Add your extracts. Pour into the bundt pan.
• 3. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 - 40 minutes, or until cake springs back when pressed with finger. Cool on rack 20 minutes. Then remove from pan. Make glaze and pour over cake.
• 4. Simple glaze: 1 to 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon melted butter, 1 tablespoon creme of coconut, 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla or pineapple extract. Mix until the consistency is to your preference - adding more sugar for thickness, or liquid (creme of coconut) to thin.

TROPICAL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350. Generously grease and flour a Bundt pan (I actually use a spray with the flour included).
• 2. Combine the sugar and butter until creamy and smooth. Add the baking powder, baking soda, and the two extracts.
• 3. Add the eggs one at a time and mix thoroughly with each addition.
• 4. Then add the softened pina colada mix and mix thoroughly.
• 5. Add about half of the flour and scrape the sides to make sure it is thoroughly blended.
• 6. Add the rest of the flour and blend well.
• 7. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
• 8. Bake for an hour. Check to make sure it is done and remove from oven.
• 9. Let cool for 10 minutes. Turn onto a cake plate and let rest for another ten minutes.
• 10. Slowly drizzle the sweetened coconut milk over the top of the cake till it runs down the sides.
• 11. TRY to wait till totally cool to have a slice ...