Pinapple Crunch Cake With Lemon Gaze

Hope everything is going great with you. Summer is really a busy time for all of us, isn’t it? It surely is for me! I was super busy juggling too many things, and decided to forget about blogging for a few days.
 

Coming to the topic of the day, the Pineapple crunch cake, the story goes like this: During our last trip to the local grocery store, we tasted a Pineapple crunch cake and we loved it! You will know if you are a blogger that once we taste something interesting we feel this urge to replicate it in our own kitchen. I am no different! I decided that I should make this myself, and started searching for recipes. I could't find anything that satisfied me, so I ended up twisting a recipe to add more flavor. Result : A better tasting cake with less sugar than we tasted from the shop. This is a huge hit with my folks, and we will be making it again soon!

Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour- 2 cups

Baking Soda- 2 tsp

Chopped Walnuts(Optional)- 1 cup

Eggs- 2 large

Granulated Sugar- 1 1/2 cup

Light Brown Sugar- 1/4 cup, packed

Pure Vanilla Extract- 2 tsp

Lemon Juice- 1 Tbsp

Lemon Zest- a pinch/more

Pineapple Crushed with juice- 1 big can(20oz)

For the Lemon Glaze:

Confectioner's sugar- 1/2 cup

Lemon juice- 2 Tbsp/ little more

Method:

1.Preheat the oven at 350 degree F.Grease a 9 by 13 inch pan.

2.Whisk together the flour, baking soda and nuts.

3.In a mixing bowl beat together the eggs and sugars.

4.Add the vanilla and lemon juice and zest. Mix well.

5.Open the crushed pineapple can and pour in everything including the juice and mix again.

6.Mix in the flour mixture until everything is mixed.

7.Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 35- 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.(It took me 37 minutes)

8.Cool on a wire rack.

9.Prepare the glaze by mixing everything together and pour over the cool cake.

10.Let the glaze set. Cut into squares and serve.

Notes:

1. You don't have to make the glaze if you want the cake to be less sweet.

2.You could also dust the cake with some powdered sugar if you are not making a glaze.

3.This is just perfectly sweet for us.If you want your cake to be really sweet, use more sugar.

4.As you can see from the ingredient list, this is a butter-less cake. But it is not dry, though a little dense

Recipe Adapted from :
here