Description
A pound cake made with pineapple and glazed with pineapple sauce. Unlike most cakes, you will not preheat the oven on this one.
Ingredients
- ½ cup shortening
- 1 cup butter
- 1 ¾ cups white sugar
- 6 large eggs eggs
- 3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¾ cup crushed pineapple with juice
- ¼ cup butter
- 1 ½ cups confectioners’ sugar
- 1 cup crushed pineapple, drained
Instructions
- Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan. Sift together the flour
- and baking powder. Set aside.
- In a large bowl
- cream together the shortening
- 1 cup butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time
- beating well with each addition
- then stir in the vanilla. Add the flour mixture alternately with milk; beat well. Stir in the 3/4 cup crushed pineapple.
- Pour into 10 inch tube pan. Place in cold oven. Turn oven to 325 degrees F (175 degrees C) and bake for 90 minutes or until top springs back when touched. Remove from oven and let stand for 10 minutes. Remove carefully from pan.
- To make the glaze: In a small saucepan
- combine 1/4 cup butter
- confectioners sugar and 1 cup crushed pineapple. heat and stir until melted. Pour over cake as soon as it comes out of the pan.
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Total Time: 2 hrs
Servings: 14