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Pineapple Coconut Cake Frosting

From Rose's kitchen

A cooked frosting of eggs, sugar, butter, crushed pineapple, and coconut. Poured hot over the 7 Up cake straight out of the oven.

15 min total 5 min prep 10 min in the oven Enough to frost one 13x9 cake

as written in Rose's hand

A cooked frosting, closer to a soft custard than a buttercream. The crushed pineapple keeps it from setting hard, so the top of the cake stays tender and a little glossy.

Have the frosting ready as the cake comes out of the oven. If the frosting cools too much before it goes on, warm it back up on low heat so it pours smooth.

Ingredients

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Makes Enough to frost one 13x9 cake at full size

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How to make it

  1. In a saucepan over medium heat, cook the eggs, sugar, flour, and margarine together, stirring often, until the mixture thickens.
  2. Add the crushed pineapple with its juice and the coconut. Stir to combine.
  3. Pour the frosting over the hot cake as soon as it comes out of the oven so it soaks into the top.
Pair this with 7 Up Cake from the tin box.

You'll also find in the tin box

This one lives in the frostings & fillings drawer of the recipe box, right next to 7 Up Sheet Cake. If a cousin's coming over on short notice and you need a whole meal from Rose's kitchen, the recipe box is where to start.

Rose kept this recipe with the ones the family expected at time, so it'll show up in those seasonal collections whenever you're planning ahead.

Cooking by what's already on your shelf? Every ingredient across every card sits in the ingredient index, so you can start from the pantry and work backward to the recipe.

Cakes

7 Up Sheet Cake

A tender yellow cake made with a can of 7 Up and topped with a hot pineapple coconut frosting poured over while the cake is still warm.

Cookies & Bars

Church-Supper Cream Cheese Bars

Grandma Rose's cream cheese bars. A yellow cake mix crust pressed flat, with a soft cream cheese and powdered sugar filling poured over the top.

Breads & Rolls

Cinnamon Walnut Zucchini Bread

A pair of tender zucchini loaves spiced with cinnamon and studded with nuts. Two 9x5 pans out of one bowl, from Rose's tin box.

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