Pineapple Cake
- Level: Easy
- Yield: 8 to 10 servings
- Total: 2 hr
- Active: 45 min
Ingredients
1 small pineapple
Cooking spray
1 15- to 16-ounce box yellow cake mix (plus required ingredients)
2 16-ounce tubs vanilla frosting
Yellow food coloring
1 1/2 12-ounce bags yellow candy melts
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350˚ F. Cut off the top of the pineapple and set aside. Peel the pineapple and finely chop 1/2 cup for the cake.
- Generously coat one 6-inch round cake pan and two 1-quart ovenproof bowls with cooking spray. Prepare the cake mix as directed; stir in the diced pineapple.
- Divide the batter among the pan and bowls. Bake until a toothpick comes out clean, about 25 minutes for the pan and 35 minutes for the bowls. Let cool, then unmold.
- Trim the domed tops of all three cakes with a long serrated knife to make them level.
- Put one bowl cake, wide-side up, on a small cardboard circle. Top with a layer of frosting, then add the round cake, more frosting and the other bowl cake, wide-side down.
- Tint the remaining frosting yellow with food coloring. Spread all over the outside of the cake in a thin layer, reserving about 1/2 cup.
- Cover the cake with the yellow candy melts, arranging them side by side and staggered; leave an opening at the top for the leaves.
- Dip the back of a small spoon in the reserved yellow frosting and dab on the upper part of each candy melt to make a small point.
- Trim the base of the pineapple leaves, then carefully place on the cake.