// Vanilla coconut & pineapple cake

Coconut and pineapple, it does not fail

Because at Christmas we love desserts and what better way to celebrate it than with this delicious combination of flavors!!! Coconut and pineapple 🍍🥥 a classic that doesn't fail 😋

This vanilla sponge cake, filled and covered with Rafaello white chocolate cream and Nestlé white chocolate desserts with homemade pineapple jam and grated coconut you will love it!!!!

Here I leave the recipe so that if you dare you can try it!!!

Ingredients: Cakes (3 molds 14cm)

❄️3 eggs @pazodevilane

❄️220g sugar

❄️2tsps of vanilla essence

❄️180ml of soft olive or sunflower oil

❄️260g of flour for cakes

❄️6g baking powder @royal_postres

❄️120ml of whole milk

Elaboration: Cakes

⛄️Before starting preheat the oven to 165ºC and grease 3 14cm molds

⛄️Beat the eggs with the sugar until you get a creamy mixture

⛄️Add the oil, the vanilla essence and beat until well integrated

⛄️Add the previously sifted flour together with the baking powder and mix with a wire whisk

⛄️Finally add the milk and mix until well integrated

⛄️Pour the mixture into the molds and bake at 165ºC for 25/28 minutes. Check with a toothpick that it comes out dry before removing the cakes from the oven

⛄️Remove the cakes from the oven and let cool on a grill for about 20 min. before demoulding

⛄️Let cool well before filling

Ingredients: Padding and coverage

White chocolate cream 🍫 and coconut 🥥

🥥90g Rafaello white chocolate

🥥110g of white chocolate Nestlé desserts

🥥400ml whipping cream 38%FC

🥥200ml vegetable cream

🥥20g grated coconut

🥥2 droplets of coconut aroma

🥥200g of homemade pineapple jam

Elaboration: Padding and coverage

💫In a bowl, chop the two chocolates

💫In a small saucepan, heat the 400ml of cream without letting it boil

💫Pour the cream into the bowl with the chocolates, stir until they dissolve well. Cover in cling-film and when it is cold, store in the refrigerator for 4 or 6 hours. I usually do it the day before

💫After the rest time, beat until it mounts, add the 200ml of vegetable cream, the 20g of grated coconut and the 2 drops of coconut aroma. Beat until the cream is thick

💫You already have the cream for the filling and the coverage of the cake

Ingredients: Pineapple jam 🍍

🍍700g fresh pineapple cut into small dice

🍍150g of sugar

🍍2 droplets of pineapple aroma (optional)

Elaboration: Pineapple jam

🌟Put the pineapple in a saucepan along with the sugar

🌟Cook until the jam has a thick consistency

🌟Add the aroma of pineapple

Ingredients: Syrup 🍯

❄️250ml water

❄️75g of sugar

❄️Vanilla essence to taste

Elaboration: Syrup

☃️ Brown the sugar a little

☃️Add the water being careful not to burn yourself

☃️Add the essence of vanilla and let it boil

☃️Remove from heat and let cool before using

Assembly of the cake

Cake with three layers of sponge cake and two layers of cream with pineapple jam

🥧Cut the cakes into layers of 2.5cm or 3cm thick

🥧Moisten the cakes with the syrup to taste

🥧Put the layers of white chocolate cream with the pineapple jam. I put 200g of chocolate cream and 100g of jam per layer

🥧Cover the cake with the rest of the cream

🥧 Decorate the cake... this is your choice. I put grated coconut, Rafaello chocolates and white chocolate tears. I also made some gum paste trees that are easy to make

Note

👩🏻‍🍳The flour I used is Bizcochona de harimsa

👩🏻‍🍳The gum paste for the Christmas trees is from funcakes

This Christmas idea is super delicious, and although it may not seem like it, it is a very light recipe! If you like coconut and pineapple, you will love every bite of this cake, because the combination of flavors is balanced and very well integrated! I encourage you to try it and enjoy it with friends, family or just yourself. It is a cake that you will love 😋🥥🍍