Pineapple Cake

This Pineapple Cake was called Pineapple Bake in my Nanna's recipe book, however I have decided to call it a cake, as it really is a cake. I honestly thought I needed to bake a pineapple, but instead I found out that I just needed to add some chopped pineapple to a cake mixture. A very nice cake mixture mind you however I was quite taken with the idea of actually baking a pineapple. 

Ironic Pineapple Hedgehog (unknown photographer)

I might just do that anyway, just to see what it would taste like. Maybe it would taste like Queensland in the 1970s. What? Oh, come on, you know what I mean, there is something very 1970s AND very Queensland about pineapple. Look, I know I'm not the only one to have come across a non-ironic pineapple hedgehog. I really have a pineapple craving now. I think I need to make a pineapple hedgehog soon, and it being 2014 there will be a hefty pinch of irony thrown in. 

How does it taste? Well, I took this cake to work, left it in the kitchen, and it was gone within 20 minutes of the all-staff email, so I guess that's what it tastes like. I found it light, fluffy and almost refreshing with the occasional piece of tangy pineapple. The very sweet and buttery vanilla icing was—literally—the icing on the cake. I wish though that I'd taken a bit more time to thematically decorate it to look more pineapply. Oh well, next time...

Pineapple Cake

115g butter

170g sugar

230g self-raising flour

3 eggs

80ml milk

75g pineapple (tinned or fresh), finely chopped

Preheat oven to 150°C.

Cream butter and sugar.

Add the egg, flour and milk.

Mix pineapple through mixture, then pour into greased and lined round cake tin. Bake for one hour (check it at 45-50 minute mark though, depending on your oven).

Decorate as you desire, I prepared a basic vanilla frosting which was a perfect sweetness against the slight tanginess of the pineapple.

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