Pineapple Coconut Cake and Computer Celebrations

This week was one of my co-worker's birthday.  She is new with us and since we are all currently in a social distance mode, I wanted to do something special for her.  Among my many duties, I am also the office party planner (not quite like Angela from "The Office", but close...definitely close, according to my daughters).  

If we were working from our regular office, I would have ordered in her favorite restaurant lunch, and brought in either cupcakes or bundtinis.  Since we had our weekly scheduled Zoom meeting, I thought I would bake her a cake and we could all celebrate her virtually.  I had her make a wish and blow out the candle, simultaneously, I blew the candle for her.

Here's hoping your wishes and prayers are answered in the coming days, weeks, and months.

Pineapple Coconut Cake
Courtesy of spendwithpennies.com

Cake:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 lime
1-1/4 tsp baking soda
1-1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup flaked sweetened coconut
1/2 cup pecans chopped
2 small bananas, mashed, about 2/3 cup
1 cup crushed pineapple (undrained)
2 eggs
1/4 cup oil
1/2 cup white sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar, packed

Lime Frosting:
4 ounces cream cheese softened
2 ounces butter, softened
2 cups powdered sugar
1 lime zested and juiced

Preheat oven  to 350 degrees.  Grease a 9x12 pan.  Using a zester, zest the green skin from lime.

In a small bowl combine flour, lime zest, baking soda, baking powder, coconut, pecans and pinch of salt.

In a medium bowl whisk together bananas, pineapple, eggs, white sugar, brown sugar, oil and 1 teaspoon of lime juice.

Combine the wet and dry ingredients just until combined (do not over mix).  Pour into prepared pan and bake 28-32 minutes of until a toothpick comes out clean.  Cool completely.

For the frosting, with mixer on medium low, cream together cream cheese and butter.  Add in lime zest and 1 teaspoon lime juice.  Mix n powdered sugar a bit at at time until incorporated.  Beat on medium until fluffy.

Spread over cooled snack cake and enjoy!

** I also added 1/2 cup of crushed macadamia nuts that I had leftover from my Paniolo's Hawaiian Macadamia Nut Pancakes, which was a delicious addition to this cake.

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