This is one of my very favorite cakes that my Momma and Granny made many times when I was growing up!
I made it recently for a friend for Easter and she was delighted…
Hope you will be too!
[ingredients]
[method]
Let’s get started…
Gather these crazy number of ingredients…
With your mixer, combine the stick of butter, oil and sugar…
Beat the ingredients about 3 minutes and it will be creamy and pale like this…
Add the eggs one at a time until the mixture turns a pale yellow…
Drain your pineapple…
To the batter, add the pineapple, bananas, coconut and nuts…
Then the dry ingredients…
Pour into 3 …9 inch cake pans sprayed with nonstick baking spray…
Bake 35-40 minutes or until toothpick tests clean…
After cooling completely, make the frosting by creaming the butter and cream cheese…
add the confectioners sugar 1 cup at a time, scraping the sides of the bowl…
add the vanilla and make sure it’s all mixed well…
Spread on each layer and then on the sides…
I wanted to give the cake a special topping, so I melted some White Ghirardelli Chocolate …
sprinkled on some tropical trail mix that included dried bananas…
I then let them set completely…
I toasted some coconut and pecans for the top of the cake
and then decorated with the white chocolate discs…
Simply gorgeous!
