Glazed Pineapple-Coconut Cake

Glazed pineapple-coconut cake is another favorite recipe we've used in our family for years. Pineapple-coconut cake whips up quickly and icing it is a snap: you simply pour the icing over the warm cake! No having to wait until your cake cools.

Pineapple-coconut cake tastes like it came right out of the tropics and is a great dessert item to take to potlucks or for when you are entertaining.

if you like the combination of pineapple and coconut, this cake offers the perfect taste. It is delicious, either with glaze icing or with a butter icing.

• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 small fat can of crushed pineapple

Beat these ingredients in a bowl, then add:

• 2 1/4 cup flour
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 1/2 tsp. soda
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Blend in these ingredients and then add:

• 1 1/2 cup sweetened coconut

Scrape batter into a greased and floured 9x12" cake pan. Bake in a 325 degree oven, 20-30 minutes, then reduce heat until cake is done.

Pour this glaze onto warm cake

• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine
• 1/4 milk

Bring icing to a boil and boil, stirring, for 2-5 minutes. Reduce heat so that icing doesn't burn but maintain temperature so that it boils and thickens.

Remove from heat and stir in 1 tsp. vanilla. Pour over pineapple-coconut cake and set in fridge to cool.

Making pineapple-coconut is easy because you don't have to wait for the cake to cool before icing it. All ingredients are added to one bowl, which also makes this recipe a time-saver.

• Add crushed pineapple to glaze