• Gâteau antillais à l'ananas

    Martinican pineapple cake

    Goûter

    Préparation

    15 minutes

    Cuisson

    30 minutes

    Almost all the Caribbean islands and the countries of Latin America attribute the authorship of the pineapple cake (overturned), so it is impossible to know its exact origin. What we know is that this cake is in the spotlight on January 1 in Haiti on the occasion of the country's Independence Day. Pineapple cake is one of Martinique's favorites and the one most often baked at home.

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Ingredients

For 8 servings:

  • 250 gr of butter
  • 250 gr + 1 large spoon of sugar
  • 300 gr of all-purpose flour
  • 3 eggs
  • Liquid vanilla flavor
  • 1 cap of rum
  • ½ lemon (just for its zest)
  • Grated or powdered cinnamon
  • 1 sachet of baking powder
  • 1 tin of sliced pineapple or a pineapple with the central part removed
Preparation
  1. In a saucepan, heat the butter until it becomes liquid.
  2. In a bowl add the flour, sugar and baking powder and stir.
  3. In another bowl, whip the egg whites until stiff and add the yolks to the mixture of flour, sugar and yeast.
  4. Pour the butter into the flour mixture and stir with a mixer for several minutes until the mixture is smooth.
  5. Pour the egg whites and stir.
  6. Add the vanilla flavor, rum and grated lemon zest and always stir with the mixer.
  7. Take the dish provided to place the cake dough and put it to heat on a fire.
  8. Add the sugar to make caramel. Once the sugar has melted into a caramel, remove the pan from the heat and spread the caramel all over the pan.
  9. Place the pineapple slices all over so that they fill the dish.
  10. Spread the cake batter all over evenly.
  11. Preheat the oven to thermostat 200.
  12. Place the cake in the oven until golden brown.
  13. Once out of the oven, unmold the cake and invert it on its side where the pineapple is.
  14. Once cooled, enjoy!

Plus d'infos

  • Conseil
    • To see if your cake is cooked, take a knife and slide in a part of the cake in the oven if the knife is clean is that the cake is cooked.
    • You can also add small pieces of pineapple in the cake batter.