Super Easy & Super Yummy Pineapple Ginger Cake
1 cup sugar (or substitute)
2 cups self raising flour
1 medium sized tin of crushed pineapple (about 440 grams or 15 oz)
1 teaspoon each of cinnamon, ground ginger, allspice, nutmeg & ground cloves
(alternatively you can use 5 teaspoons of pre-mixed gingerbread spice if this is available to you)
Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit). Mix all ingredients together in a bowl. Pour into desired tin and bake for 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
I find the texture is really 'pudding-like' and I like to serve it hot with ice cream but I have also let it cool and sprinkled icing sugar over the top and served as a teacake. It's also really good with brown sugar instead of white sugar and makes it go yummy and caramel-y.
I am yet to try but thought if you subbed in a tin of diced apples instead of the pineapple it would make a really yummy apple teacake, or a tin of apples and some golden syrup or brown sugar would make a yummy toffee apple pudding if served hot with ice cream. I think it would be a really versatile recipe if you had the time to play around with different combinations of fruit and spices/add-ins. It's certainly not healthy but definitely hits the spot when you're craving something naughty and yummy!!!
Oh and I thought I would quickly add that if you were going to sub in a liquid sweetener, like agave syrup, I haven't tried it but it might make the cake a bit mushy...let me know how you go if you do decide to change it around a bit.
Enjoy!!! :)
Source of recipe: An omni friend gave me this recipe years ago for a pineapple cake and I subbed in gingerbread spice as I thought it was too bland on its own. My mum makes a delicious pineapple ginger tart (non-vegan) which is where I got the idea of putting pineapple and ginger together.
SO HOW'D IT GO?
this didn't turn out too well for me, but it may have been my own fault. The can of pineapple I added was 20 ounces, so that may have been why the texture was off (very dense and spongy) and the spice mixture was a bit too strong for my tastes. that being said, it was super easy. if i make it again, i will probably try the apple variation mentioned and cut back on the spices.
oh no, that's a shame that it didn't work out for you, I hope it works with the apples! you will have to let me know how you go ;)b
this didn't turn out too well for me, but it may have been my own fault. The can of pineapple I added was 20 ounces, so that may have been why the texture was off (very dense and spongy) and the spice mixture was a bit too strong for my tastes. that being said, it was super easy. if i make it again, i will probably try the apple variation mentioned and cut back on the spices.