Pineapple Cake

Serves 8

Ingredients

Topping

  • 250g pineapple slices (1cm thick)
  • 70g brown sugar
  • 25g butter

Cake

  • 145g all-purpose flour
  • 1/6 tsp baking soda
  • 3/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1/6 tsp salt
  • 100g honey (or 130g sugar)
  • 125g unsalted butter at room temperature
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp ground vanilla (or extract)
  • 80ml almond or coconut milk (120 ml if using sugar instead of honey)
  • 1 tsp vinegar

Instructions

Topping

  1. Melt butter and brown sugar in a small saucepan over low/medium heat. Cook until the sugar dissolves and bubbles form around the edges.
  2. Pour into a greased cake pan.

Cake

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C.
  2. In a large bowl, sift the dry ingredients together (if using sugar, add it here) and mix.
  3. Add butter gradually while mixing. In another bowl, mix together the wet ingredients (if using honey add it here).
  4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients.
  5. Pour the batter over the pineapple slices.
  6. Bake on middle rack for 20-30 minutes until golden (or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean).