Pineapple Cake Trials And Errors
April 22nd, 2009 filed under News and UpdatesHello everyone, I hope you enjoyed my latest recipe: Eggless Pineapple Cake. As I have said before I am not very big on baking, but one good thing about doing this website is that I am learning more as I try to show you new recipes. Alex (my husband) is a big help because he will not video the recipe until he is happy with it. So now you know, you all are trying the food he approves.
Before I started on the cake, I used Google to find a few recipes that looked good, but I knew I would have to modify them. First I followed this recipe from allrecipes.com which I liked the most but I thought it was too dry so I decided to add pineapple. I pureed the pineapple and added it to my next cake. My son was visiting so he tried the cake and said it was too bland and tasteless. In my third attempt, I added crushed pineapple and pineapple juice as you see and cardamom powder. It was better then before but still too dry. I decided to spread a few spoons of pineapple juice over the cake but by that time the cake was cold. It worked but wasn’t good enough. I felt I should have put the juice while cake was still warm so that’s what I did on my fourth attempt and yes — THIS cake got the Alex approval. Now he was ready to video.
You must be wondering what I did with all this cake. First one I trashed. I sliced the second and third cake into small cubes. Then I softened some vanilla ice cream and mixed the cake and ice cream together. It tasted great and I took that for a potluck lunch. Everybody enjoyed it.
Yesterday, Alex did the video for cabbage Kofta which is now on the website. This one is my granddaughter and grandson’s favorite for now, although their favorites keep changing.
Can we bake this cake in microwave cum oven which is electric one actually i am not sure if foiled trays can be used in microwave
plz reply
Avtar,
I really don’t know the answer for this.
I do not think that in general cakes baked in microwaves turn out ok and don’t work and most definitely do not try to put something that is metal in the microwave as it will short the circuit and burn out your oven. You will ruin it if you try to do this.
Hi Manjula Aunty,
Just now I done baking your eggless pineapple cake, it came very good. I used store brought foiled trays and by mistake I added 7 oz. sweetned condensed milk (instead of 1/2 the can) , so after 25 mins. top part of the cake came good colour and taste wise, but the bottom was not done so it kept more 25 mins. and then the bottom portion was also done but it was not dark brown colour like yours (mine was like brown) but the texture, taste and smell every thing was very good. Thank you for posting your replies in web. I appreciate your help (like me, I am a beginner in cake baking).
Can we bake this cake in microwave ( which is not like urs)
Hiii manjula ji
Thanks fr making our cooking easy & delicious Want to know can we make this cake in our normal microwave with same temp &time?
Hii Manjula ji…
Thanks fr making our cooking easy & delicious…..Actually I wanted to know I have a normal microwave with grill & combination cooking mode, not like your oven…Can we make this cake exactly with this temperature & time in it?
just wanted to let you know that i tried some of your recipes, so far it all went very well and tasted good ;p Thanks again
hi manjula aunty….m from india..n i love to try your recipes and all went excellent except cake..i already tried it 2 times bt not coming successful….do i need to take only same oven tray u used..because i tried foild tray we get in stores n not making it…wt i shud do please do tell me..thanx aunty
Shruti,
If you are using foiled tray try baking it on lower heat.
thanks aunty ji for ur reply…i will try it again
regards
shruti
Hello Manjula Aunty,
I tried your eggless pineapple cake recipe and it turned out very well.
Just wanted to ask you to make a cake for 20+ people do i need to double all the ingredients as mentioned above.
Please reply.
Thanks,
Jyoti