Upside-down
pineapple cake is a classic American desert that I always knew but I decided to
reinterpret it by making a caramelized pineapple cake with spices… I still
stayed close to the American traditions since I iced the cake with a delicious
cream cheese icing.
A real
treat for any occasions a birthday for example…
Ingredients:
-1,5 cups
of cream cheese
-1 can of
minced pineapple without the juice
-1 cup of
sugar
-1, 1/3 cups of
flour
-1 cup of hazelnut
powder
-3/4 cup of
icing sugar
-3 eggs
-2
tablespoons of butter
-2
teaspoons of cinnamon
-2
teaspoons of ginger powder
-2
teaspoons of vanilla sugar
-2
teaspoons of baking powder
-1 pinch of
salt
Preheat the
oven at 350°F.
Brown the
hazelnut powder in a dry pan than put aside.
Brown the pineapple
in a pan with 2 tablespoons of sugar and 2 tablespoons of butter.
In a bowl,
mix together the eggs and the rest of the sugar and the vanilla sugar until it
foams. Add the flour, the baking powder, the hazelnut powder, the cinnamon, the
ginger and the salt. Mix well than add the caramelized pineapple without its
juice and mix again. Pour the batter in a round mould and cook for an hour.
Once it’s
cooked, remove the cake form the mould and let it cool on a grill. Meanwhile
prepare the icing by mixing the cream cheese and the icing sugar.
Once the
cake is at room temperature, cut it in half lengthwise than spread part of the
icing and put the top of the cake back. Put the icing on the rest of the cake
and why don’t you decorate it before eating it!!
