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.