Here I am again- obsessed of my oven. Reaaaly want to put something in there. It’s raining outside so really don’t feel like going shopping. Then should try to use what I have at home and create something delicious.
I notice a can of pineapple. Hmmm… That sounds like tropical cake, no? I can add also some bananas and try to do some glaze with the juice of the pineapple.
So after about an hour and a half I had a great tropical cake. It smells great and it tastes delicious!
Here’s what you need:
4 eggs
240g of sugar
240g of cake flour
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons baking soda
170ml vegetable oil (I used peanut oil because that’s what I had)
1 can pineapples (340g)
1 banana
1/2 lime
3 tablespoons of powdered sugar
2 sheets of gelatin
Preheat the oven at 180°C. Grease and cover with baking paper a rectangular bread mould (26×12cm).
Sift together flour and baking soda. In second bowl first mix sugar and eggs till fluffy. Add vanilla extract(if you have pineapple extract you can use it instead of the vanilla).
Now add around 1/3 of the flour and 1/3 of the oil. Mix with a spoon till incorporated. Add the rest of the flour and oil and continue till homogenous.
It’s time to add the finely chopped pineapple(no juice there. Keep it in a glass for later). Mix and pour in the bread mould. It goes in the oven for around 35-40 minutes or when a toothpick goes out clean.
Leave it cool around 10 minutes in the mould and then carefully turn it around so your cake is out. Leave it cool completely on a kitchen rack.
Now you can go back to the pineapple juice. We’ll use it for our tropical glaze.
Use around 100ml of the pineapple juice. Add the juice of 1/2 lime. That goes in a small saucepan. Add the sugar and let it boil.
Put the gelatin sheets in cool water for around 5 minutes. After put them in the fruit juice and remove from the heat. Let it cool for a while.
Cut a banana to thin slices and decorate your cake. Take the tropical juice and with a spoon pour over the bananas. It’s getting thick really quickly so after a minute you should have just a thin layer of jelly.
Well that was pretty simple but the result is great. And it goes perfectly with your cup of tea!
Hope you’ll try it! And of course that you will like it!
See you soon!
Bon Appétit!
Christina
The Secret Life Of A Peach 