Monday, April 8, 2019

Pina Colada Cake: Spring Cleaning Blog With Friends

Today’s post is the next in our series of Blog With Friends themed collaborations. Each month a group of bloggers get together and each publish a project based on a theme. What I love about his partnership is that it's not bloggers with similar interests or strengths but a diverse group coming up with a variety of posts. In any given month we may a recipe, sewing tutorial, crocheting, crafts project, book review, and/or technology post all related to the theme of the month.

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This month's theme is Spring Cleaning.

There will be individual project pictures and links to what everyone else has to offer at the end of my post, but here's a peek at what we all came up with:

Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Spring Cleaning. | Graphic by Jules of The Bergham Chronicles | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com

I made a Pina Colada Cake.


Pina Colada Cake, this quick and easy bunt cake has flavors that take you to the beach on a summer day. Mix, bake, glaze and you’re done. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #cake

Pina Colada Cake 
Pina Colada Cake, this quick and easy bunt cake has flavors that take you to the beach on a summer day. Mix, bake, glaze and you’re done. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #cake


I do not like spring cleaning. There, I said it. In fact, I don't like cleaning at all. Yeah, it gets done (although not necessarily by me) so don't be afraid to ring my doorbell. But once a year there's some cleaning that only I can do. Each spring, like it or not, Passover arrives. I cannot tell you how much I suffer through this holiday. Among the other dietary laws, no foods with leavening can be eaten. No breads, rolls, cakes, cookies . . . no cereal, rice, pasta, nothing fun. For eight days. Everything has to be made from scratch with alternate ingredients. It is the biggest pain in the butt, especially when the boys were young and I needed to make not just meals but snacks for after school as well. 

The spring cleaning comes in preparation for the holiday. You are supposed to clean out your fridge and your pantry and throw away or donate any foods not allowed for the holiday. Let me just say right now that I'm not a good rule follower. Especially this one. I do the clean out part but I don't throw away or donate any forbidden foods that will keep, I just store them in the very back of the pantry. What I do is take the opportunity to discard or use anything that shouldn't sit around any longer, and I always make something I can't have over the holiday.

It's actually a fun challenge, placing the items I want to use or throw away on the counter and see what I can make with them. This year? Well, this year was easy. The ingredients just spoke to me. I had a box of yellow cake mix, a half empty jar of maraschino cherries, a can of crushed pineapple (must have missed this one last year because I think it's been in the pantry quite a while) and some leftover toasted coconut that, again, I'm not sure when I'd made in the first place. These particular ingredients screamed (well, not literally), Pina Colada Cake. Just add rum, which I don't drink on Passover either {{sob}}.

Using a mix, the cake comes together pretty quickly and easily. Gather the ingredients:

Pina Colada Cake, this quick and easy bunt cake has flavors that take you to the beach on a summer day. Mix, bake, glaze and you’re done. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #cake


Beat the batter, then mix in the cherries.
Pina Colada Cake, this quick and easy bunt cake has flavors that take you to the beach on a summer day. Mix, bake, glaze and you’re done. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #cake


Spread into the prepared bundt pan and it's ready for the oven.

Pina Colada Cake, this quick and easy bunt cake has flavors that take you to the beach on a summer day. Mix, bake, glaze and you’re done. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #cake

Allow to set for 10 minutes in the pan.

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Remove and cool completely.

Pina Colada Cake, this quick and easy bunt cake has flavors that take you to the beach on a summer day. Mix, bake, glaze and you’re done. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #cake

 
Last step, whisk the topping and drizzle over the cake. Sprinkle with toasted coconut and serve!
Pina Colada Cake, this quick and easy bunt cake has flavors that take you to the beach on a summer day. Mix, bake, glaze and you’re done. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #cake


Spring cleaning may not be fun. And Passover is definitely not fun. But Pina Colada Cake? Now that's a party!

As always, any time you make one of my recipes, feel free to post a picture of it to my Baking In A Tornado Facebook Page. I'd love to see it!

Be sure to visit all of this month's other Blog With Friends projects:

Dawn of Spatulas on Parade shares Spring Clean Up Eating, changing favorite recipes into healthier versions.
Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Spring Cleaning.  | Spring Clean Up Eating by Dawn of Spatuas on Parade | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com



Melissa of My Heartfelt Sentiments shares Spring Fun, a spring card made from scraps. 
Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Spring Cleaning.  | Spring Card by Melissa of My Heartfelt Sentiments | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com


Stacy of Stacy Sews and Schools shares The Unpaper Towel, reusable kitchen towels. 
Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Spring Cleaning.  | The Unpaper Towel by Stacy of Stacy Sews and Schools | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com


Lydia of Cluttered Genius shares Kids' Easter Cross Painting, simple and easy for little kids.
Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Spring Cleaning.  | Kids' Easter Cross Painting by Lydia of Cluttered Genius | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com



Jules of The Bergham Chronicles shares Cleaning Out My Closet.
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Pina Colada Cake
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Printable Recipe

Ingredients:
1 box yellow cake mix
3 eggs
1/3 cup oil
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup coconut rum
1 (8 oz) can crushed pineapple
15 maraschino cherries

1 cup powdered sugar
3 TBSP maraschino cherry juice (from the jar)
2 - 3 TBSP coconut rum (can substitute grenadine for less alcohol flavor)
1/4 cup toasted coconut

Directions:
*Grease and flour a bundt pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
*Remove the cherries from the jar to a paper towel to drain. Reserve the juice in the jar for use in the topping. Discard the stems from the cherries and cut the cherries into quarters.
*Beat cake mix, eggs, oil. water, rum and crushed pineapples (with juice) for 2 minutes. Mix in the quartered cherries.
*Pour evenly into bundt pan. Bake for 35 to 45 minutes or until the center of the top springs back to the touch.
*Cool for 10 minutes, remove from pan and cool completely.
*Mix together the powdered sugar and 3 TBSP juice from the cherry jar. One TBSP at a time, add your choice of coconut rum or grenadine until the mixture reaches thick drizzling consistency. Drizzle over the cooled cake. Sprinkle with toasted coconut.

18 comments:

  1. When I read the post title I wondered what cleaning and pina colada cake had in common. Now I know!

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  2. Sounds delicious. Now that I am on a restricted carb and sugar regime, I have to cheat on my diet for Passover to eat Matzoh. Something is wrong with that!!

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  3. Coconut rum is my favorite and I love a pina colada cake. I have the grilled chicken, I can make a salad real fast so hurry on over with the cake!! AND any leftover run.

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  4. Pina Colada's might make Spring cleaning a bit more fun! This cake seems so simple and sounds delicious. Thank you for sharing!

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  5. I'm going to make this work somehow. This sounds so good and I have all of the ingredients except, lol, the cake mix. And only a few days left before Passover.

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    1. Ha, well that ingredient is easy enough to get. You've still got a little over a week before Passover, better head to the store.

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  6. Interesting the cake sounds interesting, to bad I will never try it

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  7. YUUUMMMMMYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That looks wonderful!! And easy enough that even I could make it!
    I've never been a good rule follower either. ;)

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  8. I think Passover would be difficult for me. I eat pasta once a week. I think some weeks, it's more like twice. That's just as a main dish. If you factor in side dishes, some weeks it's even more. I'd obviously do it, but I definitely think it'd be hard.
    When I first read the post name, I figured this would be a recipe I'd skip, since we cannot do coconut. However, after reading it I honestly think it'd be delicious even if we left out the coconut. I'm excited to try it. Kateri's birthday is May 31st, and Gigi graduates Kindergarten that day. I think this will be the perfect cake, for Gigi and I to make. Thank you for the recipe!!

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    1. I hate Passover. I do it, but I hate it.
      There is very little coconut, just on the topping. Congratulations to Gigi. Let me know if you try the cake.

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  9. Yum! I used to love eating matzo as a kid (I babysat a family that had it during Passover). This is a cool recipe, and I think I'll have to add it to my list!

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    1. Figures the people who don't have to eat matzo actually like it.

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