Florida Tropical Pound Cake
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Recipe Introduction
All the best flavors of South Florida combine to make this festive holiday treasure. It's an extra-moist pound cake loaded with tropical fruit. Treat your holiday house guests to a slice of this with their morning coffee and
they'll never want to go home. Or use it to round out a cookie tray or dessert table.
List of Ingredients
3/4 cups sweetened flaked coconut
2 cups sugar
2 sticks butter, softened (1 cup)
3 eggs
4-1/2 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking soda
1/2 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon rum extract
Grated rind of 1 lemon
1 (16-ounce) can pineapple chunks in juice,
drained reserving 1/4 cup juice
1/2 cup mashed ripe bananas
1/2 cup pitted dates, chopped
Crunchy Topping
1 cup dried plantain chips, crushed
1 cup sweetened flaked coconut
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped pecans
Recipe
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Place the coconut in a shallow pan and bake 5 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until golden.
In a large nonreactive bowl, with an electric mixer on medium-high speed, cream sugar and butter about 1 minute or until well blended. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. By hand, blend in flour, soda, sour cream, vanilla, rum extract, lemon rind and 1/4 cup reserved pineapple juice.
Mix well. Blend in drained pineapple, mashed bananas and dates. (The mixture will be fairly thick.)
To make topping: In a small bowl, blend all topping ingredients together.
Spoon cake batter into a lightly greased and floured 8-inch Bundt pan; sprinkle topping mixture over batter and bake 1 hour and 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire
rack. Remove from pan and slice.
YIELD: 10 to 12 S.
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