Easy Pineapple Cake
This pineapple cake is super easy to make. It's topped with a delicious cream cheese frosting.
Pineapple Cake Ingredients
These are the ingredients you’ll need to make this pineapple cake recipe:
For the cake: cooking spray, all-purpose flour, white sugar, baking soda, kosher salt, eggs, a can of crushed pineapple with juice, and vanilla extract
For the frosting: cream cheese, unsalted butter, confectioners’ sugar, and vanilla extract
How to Make Pineapple Cake
You’ll find the full, step-by-step recipe below — but here’s a brief overview of what you can expect when you make homemade pineapple cake:
Make the batter.
Pour the batter into the prepared baking dish.
Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
Make the frosting.
Spread the frosting over the cooled cake.
Ingredients
Cake:
cooking spray
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ cups white sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon kosher salt
2 large eggs
1 (20-ounce) can crushed pineapple with juice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Frosting:
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
½ cup unsalted butter, softened
1 ½ cups confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-baking dish with cooking spray.
Mix flour, white sugar, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl and make a well in the center. Add eggs, crushed pineapple with juice, and vanilla; whisk until well-combined. Pour into the prepared baking dish.
Bake in the preheated oven until top is deeply browned and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 35 minutes. Let cake cool in the dish on a wire rack, 1 to 2 hours.
To make the frosting: Combine cream cheese and butter for frosting in a mixing bowl; beat with an electric mixer until smooth, about 1 minute. Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla; beat until creamy, about 1 or 2 minutes more.
Spread frosting on cooled cake.