Best 7 Tropical Pound Cake Recipes

TROPICAL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
• Spray a 10-cup tube pan with floured cooking spray and set aside (make sure the pan is coated well).
• Cream together the butter and cream cheese on low speed until mixed well. Slowly add the sugar. Beat until the mixture is light and fluffy at medium-high speed for 5 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating on low speed. (Mix from 15 to 30 seconds.) Slowly add flour. Once the flour is mixed in add the extracts. Beat the mixture on medium-low speed for about 30 seconds. Stop and scrape down the sides, beat another 30 seconds. TIP: do not overbeat, cake will be dry.
• Pour batter into the tube pan and distribute evenly. Bake for 1 hour 30 minutes. Test for doneness. Remove from over and let the cake cool in the pan for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes turn the cake out on a serving dish. Put the dish on a wire rack to complete cooling. One cake is cool, frost.
• Icing: Take the strained crushed pineapple, put in a small bowl, and with the back of a large spoon, press out as much juice as possible. Set aside.
• Cream together the cream cheese and butter. Add the crushed pineapple and extracts. Beat about a minute. Slowly add the confectioners' sugar, 1 cup at a time, until you reach the desired spreading consistency. You will most likely use the entire box. Beat until light and fluffy. Frost the pound cake on all sides, top and middle. Carefully press the coconut on the sides, and sprinkle on the top. Hint, put the cake dish on waxed paper so that the coconut that falls off can be easily collected.

TROPICAL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Melt 2 tablespoons butter; lightly brush over one side of each cake slice. Place buttered side up in a foil-lined 15x10x1-in. pan. Broil 3-4 in. from the heat for 1-2 minutes or until golden brown. , In a large skillet, melt remaining butter; add fruit. Cook and stir over medium heat for 5 minutes or until heated through. Stir in honey; cook for 2 minutes. , Place two cake slices on each of six dessert plates. Top each with 1/2 cup fruit mixture; sprinkle with coconut. Garnish with pomegranate seeds if desired.

POUND CAKE WITH TROPICAL FRUIT AND RUM-APRICOT SAUCE

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, mix the apricot jam with the water, rum and fruit.Bring to a boil over medium heat. Boil until sauce is thickened and syrupy, about 5 minutes. Cool slightly.
• To serve: place a slice or two of pound cake in serving plate, top with some fruit and syrup. Garnish with a dollop of whipped cream.

TROPICAL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325.
• Grease a 12-cup Bundt pan. Lightly dust with flour.
• Whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl until mixed well.
• Beat together butter and sugar in a second bowl until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Mix together sour cream (or yogurt), pineapple, and lime rind in a small bowl.
• On low speed, beat flour mixture into butter mixture in 3 additions, alternating with the sour cream (yogurt) mixture, starting and ending with the flour mixture.
• Add coconut and vanilla extracts.
• Beat on medium speed for 3 minutes.
• Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in 325-degree oven for 60 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Transfer pan to wire rack and cool for 20 minutes.
• Remove from pan and let cool completely.
• Glaze:.
• Whisk together lime juice and confectioner's sugar in small bowl until good drizzling consistency.
• Drizzle over cake and garnish with desired toppings.

TROPICAL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Spray a bundt cake pan with oil; dust it with flour or powdered sugar.
• 2. With a mixer, cream together the tub of pineapple cream cheese and the eggs until smooth. Add to the creamed mixture the cake mix, creme of coconut, oil, and sugar. Mix for 1 minute and scrap down sides of bowl. Then continue to mix 2 minutes on medium speed. Add your extracts. Pour into the bundt pan.
• 3. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 - 40 minutes, or until cake springs back when pressed with finger. Cool on rack 20 minutes. Then remove from pan. Make glaze and pour over cake.
• 4. Simple glaze: 1 to 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon melted butter, 1 tablespoon creme of coconut, 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla or pineapple extract. Mix until the consistency is to your preference - adding more sugar for thickness, or liquid (creme of coconut) to thin.

TROPICAL BREEZE CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheadt oven to 350 degrees and place rack in center of oven. Grease and flour a bundt cake pan.
• 2. In a food processor fit with a chopping blade put the 1/4 cup flour and the whole dried apricots. Pulse to chop continuing until the apricots are finely chopped but not a paste. If the apricots 'gum-up' add just a touch more flour to coat the pieces (doing this helps the fruit to stay suspended in the batter during baking). Set Aside
• 3. In a large mixing bowl, Mix sugar and butter completely until it is blended well and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing after each addition. Add the flour, Vanilla extract & baking powder and mix together well. The batter should be thick and cream.
• 4. Using a spatula, gently fold into the batter the chopped apricots and chopped nuts. Do not over mix; when making a pound cake you want it to be dense without a lot of air, if you mix too much you incorporate too much air into the batter.
• 5. spoon the Thick batter into the prepared bundt pan, smoothing and leveling. Tap the pan a couple times on a counter top to settle the batter.
• 6. Bake in a 350 degree pre-heated oven for 50 to 55 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.
• 7. Remove cake from oven and allow to cool on a wire rack for 10 to 15 minutes.
• 8. Invert cake onto wire rack and while the cake is still hot, spread the cake with about 1/4 to 1/2 of the jar of Apricot spreadable fruit (put the opened jar in the refrigerator for the next day) and then leave the cake to cool completely. When completely cooled cover lightly and allow to sit overnight. Doing this allows the spreadable fruit to be absorbed into the cake.
• 9. In the morning on the day of serving, spread the cake once again with the remaining 1/2 jar of apricot spreadable fruit.
• 10. Spinkle the cake with a good covering of sweetened flaked coconut.
• 11. Cover until serving. Cut into 1/2 or 1 inch wide pieces and serve with a good cup of coffee or tea.

TROPICAL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350. Generously grease and flour a Bundt pan (I actually use a spray with the flour included).
• 2. Combine the sugar and butter until creamy and smooth. Add the baking powder, baking soda, and the two extracts.
• 3. Add the eggs one at a time and mix thoroughly with each addition.
• 4. Then add the softened pina colada mix and mix thoroughly.
• 5. Add about half of the flour and scrape the sides to make sure it is thoroughly blended.
• 6. Add the rest of the flour and blend well.
• 7. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
• 8. Bake for an hour. Check to make sure it is done and remove from oven.
• 9. Let cool for 10 minutes. Turn onto a cake plate and let rest for another ten minutes.
• 10. Slowly drizzle the sweetened coconut milk over the top of the cake till it runs down the sides.
• 11. TRY to wait till totally cool to have a slice ...