Categories: Food & Drink

Pineapple Crumble Cake for Christmas Day

The first time I decided to try my hands on sponge cake, I was pleased to know that you don’t need to use 250g of unsalted butter nor use more than 2 eggs which would induce the sponge cake very dense and damp.

I even tried store bought Pineapple cakes which gave wet and damp buttery cake with pineapple rings but those cakes aren’t my cup of tea.

 

I prefer Pineapple cake that is soft and crumbly texture with crumbly toppings.

Hence, I decided try a different sponge cake recipe that had produced just as I had expected turnout.

Sponge cake makes a perfect Pineapple Crumble Cake.

All you need is self raising flour, brown sugar, Grade A eggs, fresh pineapple flesh with juice , roasted peanuts, seedless sultanas , cinnamon powder and extra teaspoon of baking powder.

 

Replace ingredients

Self-raising flour: You could replace it with wheat flour or plain flour but remember to sieve it to produce a fine and loose flour. You need 2 teaspoonful of baking powder instead of 1 teaspoon in order to produce a fluffy and raised up cake instead of sunken cake.

 

Fresh Pineapple: You can use canned pineapple cubes or rings. Measure the same weight, chop them finely and you can use the pineapple juice in the can instead of squeezing it out from the pineapple cubes.

 

Brown sugar: You can replace brown sugar with grated palm sugar or fine white sugar or icing sugar. However if you are using white sugar, do reduce the weight into half because brown sugar is less sweet than white sugar. Otherwise your pineapple cake would turn out too sweet.

 

Peanuts: You can replace roasted peanuts with ready packed ground nuts without the skins, roasted almonds, roasted cashew nuts or hazel nuts. Chop them well or use the food processor to roughly chop coarsely the nuts. These nuts would produce a nice chewy and crumbly bites for the inner cake texture.

 

Sultanas: You can replace sultanas with other dried fruits such as apricots, raisins, red or green cherries or prunes. Sultanas are added into this pineapple cake for more fibre and easy bowel movements.

 

Cinnamon: This is an optional ingrdient that you totally remove it but I would strongly to add maybe a pinch of two into the pineapple cake to produce the tingy and richly spice flavor.

 

 

 

 

Pineapple Crumble Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 180g unsalted butter
  • 180 brown sugar
  • 2 Grade A eggs
  • 80g chopped and roasted peanuts
  • 75g sultanas

 

 

Sifted together:

  • 180g self raising flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
  • 330g peeled fresh pineapples, chopped finely

 

 

Crumble Toppings

 

  • 80g self raising flour
  • 20g cold butter
  • 80g brown sugar
  • A pinch of cinnamon powder
  • 3 tsp pineapple juice
  • 50g roasted peanuts, chopped coarsely
  • Icing sugar for dusting

 

 

Method of baking the cake:

  • Lightly grease with butter, the sides and base of a round cake tin with a springform pan.
  • In a mixing bowl, cream butter, brown sugar until light and creamy.
  • Crack in one egg at a time after beating each interval.
  • Add in the chopped roasted peanuts and sultanas, mix well.
  • Sieve in all the dry ingredients, mix well.
  • Fold in finely chopped pineapples, mix well again.
  • Turn the cake mixture into the prepared springform cake tin.

 

How to prepare the pineapple crumble topping

 

  • Put the flour into a bowl, add in the butter.
  • Use your finger tips to blend both ingredients together, to form alike breadcrumbs.
  • Stir in sugar, cinnamon and then the pineapple juice.
  • Mix until a coarse lumpy texture is formed.
  • Stir in the chopped peanuts and spoon the crumble mixture over the surface of the cake.
  • Bake in oven at 180C for 1 hour.
  • Use a cake skewer or toothpick to poke into the middle of the cake.
  • If it comes out clean, the cake is ready.
  • If the comes out wet, damp, sticky, further bake 10min
  • Leave the cake to cool in the cake tin for 10min.
  • Then, dust with a little icing sugar, before removing the springform tin, leaving the cake intact.
  • Cut into traingular shape.

 

 

Tips:

You can garnish top of the cake with fruits if you desire

 

Chill cake in fridge if cannot finish.

 

More cakes to share:

Marble cake with almonds- bake with rice cooker

Coconut cherry cake-bake with rice cooker

Pumpkin walnut cake for Christmas

 

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    • Yesss! This is one of my most favorite topics to talk about. Im a big fan of bake goods and sweets, try not to eat all the time tho because it really isn't good for you. But besides all that I really enjoy eating them. Bake goods are a big YES for the holidays. The kids really get excited over them. (Make sure they eat first) My favorite goods for the holidays are red velvet. Ball (red velvet cake in small balls dip in white chocolate) and of course peanut butter balls Yesss!You can make those several ways.dipped in white chocolate or milk chocolate. Nuts on top of you like.mix peanutbutter with powder sugar till able to make into quarter size balls,or you can make into different shapes,then dip them in the chocolate you choose. Don't you just love this time of the year. There so many more holiday treats. The different types of sugar cookies and cakes. Yummy!!!I feel the joy already.

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