Pineapple Pastry
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Recipe type: Dessert
 
Ingredients
For the cake:
  • 1-1/2 cups self raising flour plus more for pans
  • 1 ¾ Cups Confectioner’s sugar (Powdered Sugar)
  • 4 Eggs (Room temperature)
  • 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
For the Filling and Frosting:
  • 1 ½ cups Heavy Whipping Cream
  • ½ cup Confectioner’s sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
For the syrup:
  • ½ cup pineapple syrup from can chilled
  • 1 tbsp Powdered sugar
  • ½ cup Ice-cold water
Instructions
  1. Preheat Oven to 350F
  2. Coat a 9" rectangular pan with butter and dust it with flour and keep it aside till ready to use.
  3. Separate eggs. Whip the yellow and the white separately (the yellow should not escape into white, else the cake will fall flat).
  4. Fold in the yellow into the white.
  5. Mix in the sugar and essence.
  6. Fold in the flour, making sure it's mixed in properly, about a minute on high).
  7. Pour into the baking pan.
  8. Bake for 20 minutes. It should rise nicely and look golden.
  9. Invert the cake on a cooling rack.
Frosting:
  1. Combine the cream, sugar and essence. Whip till it forms peaks.
Syrup:
  1. In a bowl, combine chilled syrup, sugar and ice cold water.
  2. Cut the cake neatly into two halves horizontally, slicing the top to give it an even base.
  3. Drizzle the syrup over both pieces of the cake, letting it soak and become moist.
Final touch
  1. Put a thin layer of cream on one half.
  2. Place the other half of the cake on top of the cream.
  3. Slather the whipped cream till it's covered well.
  4. Garnish with pineapple chunks.
  5. Slice into tall rectangular pieces and serve.
Recipe by The Lady 8 Home at https://www.thelady8home.com/fathers-day-the-boys-bake-a-cake-and-an-incredible-story/