Pineapple Pecan Coffee Cake
I was once again very pleasantly surprised with the outcome of using a baking mix (think Bisquick) for making a cake. Evidently there are more ways to make a coffee cake with a baking mix than you can shake a stick at.
The coffee cake topping is going to remind you of a pineapple upside down cake. Brown sugar,pecans, cinnamon and butter mixed together then layered over pineapple. It fits perfectly with the white cake flavored with pineapple juice on the bottom.
Pineapple Pecan Coffee Cake is quick to make with fantastic results. You’re going to love this one, Enjoy!
Pineapple Pecan Coffee Cake
Ingredients
- 1 can 20 oz tidbit pineapple pieces in juice
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 Teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 1/4 cup butter cubed
- 1 egg
- 2 cups baking mix example Bisquick
- 2 Tablespoons sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease and flour a 9 inch round baking pan.
- Drain pineapple tidbits, reserving 2/3 cups of juice. Pat the tidbits dry with a paper towel.
- In a medium bowl, mix brown sugar, cinnamon, pecans and cubed butter. Work the mixture between your fingers till well combined. Set aside.
- In a large bowl beat the reserved juice with the egg, baking mix and white sugar. Beat together for 1 minute, just until you have a smooth batter.
- Spread the batter into your prepared pan. Top the batter with half of the brown sugar/pecan mixture. Place the pineapple tidbits on top. Place the remaining brown sugar/pecan mixture over the tidbits. Bake at 400 degrees for 25 -30 minutes or until tests done with a toothpick.
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Also made this recipe for my family guests from the US & Canada as a sweet treat to accompany brunch during their visit & we loved this as well. Altho made as written, baking time was a bit of a challenge, but it should not have been so. I baked mine in a 9-in rd glass pie plate & set the timer for 25 min. At 25 min, it looked like soup & it still looked like soup at 30 min. So I continued baking until 35 min, took it out of the oven & let it fully cool. The last 5 min of the 35 min baking time was overkill as the soup appearance was actually the bubbling of the sugar/butter topping. It was delicious, however, & well-rec’d by my family. I do so love using Bisquick & the easy recipes that you can create w/it. Thanks a 2nd time from me & my family. 🙂
I chose this recipe because of its simplicity and the fact that I had all the ingredients on hand. (I even had a 20 oz. can of pineapple tidbits on the shelf that I needed to use.)
The final product was quite tasty, but I share my comments and experience below.
Timing: The recipe was not true to the timing as it took far longer to cook than indicated. We kept putting the oven on for additional 5-minute intervals, but it still did not pass the “toothpick test”. I am not sure in the end how many additional intervals we did, but I would guess a good 15-20 minutes more than the recipe states.
Mixing the ingredients in Step 3: This was a bit of a challenge to mix the brown sugar and butter component. The ingredient section says to cube the butter, but does not indicate should the butter be cold from the refrigerator or room temperature. I elected for the latter, but opted to use my wooden kitchen “fingers” instead of my own hands as I did not want brown sugar and butter under my fingernails. (Plus, I have never cared for this way of mixing as it is not sanitary unless you use proper gloves which I did not have.)
Not quite like the picture: The photo shows more pineapple at the top than in reality based on the process outlined. (Of course, it is a food photo, so made to look perfect.) I think it would have been okay to reserve some of the pineapple to put on top along with the remaining sugar/pecan mixture to get the effect that is shown in the photo.
Final Analysis: I wonder if the coffee cake would have been better if the process to prepare it was more like the process used to make a pineapple upside down cake, where the pineapple is on the bottom of the pan (versus on top of the batter) so that it dries out a bit more in the cooking process. The next time we make it, we will try it this way to compare. My husband suggested even mixing the pineapple in the batter. So, another possibility.
Thank you for your input Lynn