Pineapple is an incredibly delicious and healthy tropical fruit. But in addition to overflowing with nutrients, antioxidants and other health-promoting compounds, this fruit can be used in a beautiful, inverted cake. Ancestral tradition but able to revive our taste buds to this day. Discover the easy and fast recipe of the famous pineapple cake.
Pineapples are low in calories but have an incredibly impressive nutritional profile. This fruit is rich in vitamin C, manganese and is also a good source of antioxidants. Pineapples are particularly rich in antioxidants called flavonoids and phenolic acids that can reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and some cancers.
Now that you know the benefits of this delicious fruit, here is the invincible recipe for the pineapple cake.
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 100 g of agave syrup
- 100 g melted vegetable butter
- 150 g of flour (75 g of rice flour, 40 g of corn, 25 g of almond flour, add a binder such as psyllium or guar gum)
- 1 packet of dry yeast
- ½ teaspoon of untreated lemon peel
For decoration
- 1 fresh pineapple cut into slices
- Candied cherries
- 1 tablespoon cane sugar
- Realization steps
- Preheat the oven to 180 °.
In a large bowl, break the eggs and add the sugar, whisk for 2 to 3 minutes with an electric mixer. Then stir in the butter and lemon zest. Sift the flour and yeast and gently pour over the mixture. And now your dough preparation is ready!
Lightly butter a cake pan, place the pineapple rings on the bottom with a cherry between each two washers. Sprinkle with brown sugar, then add your cake mixture to the mold. And bake for 40 minutes.
Take out your cake from the oven and let it cool. Unwrap it gently and your delicious pineapple cake is ready to be tasted.
This cake has a fascinating history:
The idea of baking an upside down cake is an ancient technique that came into being centuries ago when cakes were baked in cast iron stoves. It was easy for the cook to add fruit and sugar to the bottom of the pan and a simple cake batter on top and put it in the fire for cooking and in the end turn it over on a plate. This recipe was a great way to show a nice fruit like pineapple and enjoy a good cake.
The idea of pineapple came shortly after 1911, when engineer Henry Ginaca invented a machine to cut his pineapple into pretty rings. Then, the pretty pineapple rings were used in this ancestral technique of the cake in the pan. The invention of maraschino cherry added the color needed to make this cake superb.
According to the US Food and Beverage Dictionary, revised edition of 1994, the first print of this cake dates back to 1930 although the original version of the cake is much older.
Interesting facts about pineapple:
- In the early colonies of America, a pineapple was offered as a gift of friendship.
- It takes an average of two years for a pineapple to produce fruit.
- Southeast Asia now produces the majority of pineapples in the world.
- You can grow your own pineapple by planting the top of the pineapple in the soil.
- One of the ways to know if a pineapple is ripe is to smell it.
- A pineapple can not ripen after picking.
- Pineapple pulp left after extraction is used in livestock feed. It is very rich in vitamin A.
- The core of the pineapple is edible.
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