Friday, July 15, 2011

Cake 5: Pineapple Coffee Cake and Homemade Yellow Cake—two forehead-meets-the-table disappointments

I have been on a serious Pina Colada kick lately.  It’s my favorite flavor aside from chocolate.  And I thought, hey—if you can make a pineapple upside down cake, why can’t you make a pineapple and coconut coffee cake?  So, I went in search of a recipe and found this one on www.food.com.  Apparently, it’s one of the more popular recipes for pineapple cake.  I made it up, and doctored it a little (added coconut to the batter.) 

It looked like cake.  It smelled like cake.  But it tasted like a whole lotta nothing. I was so disappointed I didn’t even take a picture of it before pitching it.

But, I still had time to try something else.  Since I was out of canned pineapple, I thought I’d go with Mel's Homemade Yellow Cake.  It, too, was a disappointment, but maybe it’s just me.  The cake turned out fine, but when I think of yellow cake, I think of the vivid yellow and airy/spongy texture that comes from boxed cake mix.  And I like that.  Mel’s yellow cake was on the dry, heavy side.

Oh well.  There’s always next week!

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