Pineapple Pastry is a delightful dessert bursting with sweet, tart, and tangy flavors. Fluffy and tender cake is layered with a creamy whipped frosting, and the bright taste of pineapple is in every bite.

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 50 minutes
  • Cook time: 40 minutes
  • Total time: 90 minutes
  • Yield: 6
  • Category: Desserts
  • Cuisine: World

Ingredients

  • 1 Vanilla Cake (or sponge cake - small to medium-sized, homemade or store-brought)
  • 200 ml whipping cream (or heavy cream)
  • ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract (or pineapple essence)
  • 4 to 5 tablespoons icing sugar (or as required)
  • 2 to 3 pineapple slices (tinned or canned, finely chopped)
  • 3 to 4 pineapple slices (tinned or canned, for decoration)
  • 5 to 6 glazed cherries (for decoration or chocolate chips, optional)
  • 2 to 3 teaspoons Pineapple Juice (for brushing on the cake, homemade or canned, optional)

Method

Preparation

  1. Remove the 2 to 3 pineapple slices from the can draining the syrup in the can itself. Finely chop the pineapple slices and set aside.
  2. Slice the cake with a serrated knife from the center carefully into two equal halves.
  3. Brush the base slice of the cake with some pineapple juice. This is an optional step. If you do not have pineapple juice, brush with some sugar water. To make sugar water, simply dissolve a 2 to 3 teaspoons of sugar in 2 to 3 tablespoons of water. Mix well and use.

Make Cream Frosting

  1. In a stand mixer fitted with the wired whip blade, whip the cream and icing sugar along with vanilla extract or pineapple essence, at high speed till you get stiff peaks in the cream.
  2. You can also use a hand held electric beater to whip the cream.
  3. Taste the whipped cream and add more icing sugar if needed.
  4. The cream should have stiff peaks – meaning on turning the bowl the cream should not fall.
  5. Mix the finely chopped pineapple with ¼ or ⅓ portion of the whipped cream in a separate bowl.

Make Pineapple Cake

  1. Spread the pineapple cream frosting on the base slice evenly..
  2. Keep the other cake half over on top.
  3. Now spread the remaining whipped cream all over the cake on the top as well as the sides, with a palette knife or spatula evenly.
  4. Decorate the top of the cake with a few more pineapple slices.
  5. Keep the Pineapple Pastry in the refrigerator for 2 to 3 hours so that the cream icing sets.
  6. Serve the Eggless Pineapple Cake immediately.
  7. Or you can keep it covered in the fridge and then serve later.
  8. It is advisable to finish this Pineapple Cake in a day or two.

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.