July 2, 2025

Upside-down pineapple cake

by KOMEKO Team in Recipes

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Moist, gluten-free pineapple upside-down cake with fresh pineapple, desiccated coconut, and a subtle orange flavor. Easy to prepare, nut-free, and perfect for any occasion.

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Ingredients

For the cake:

1 Pineapple
150 g butter
100 g brown sugar
3 Eggs
1 Packet of vanilla sugar
160 g desiccated coconut
130 g KOMEKO KUCHENGLÜCK
0.5 Orange, untreated (abrasion)
1 tsp baking powder

Preparation

Prepare pineapple
Peel the pineapple and cut into 2 cm thick slices, then cut out the core.
Prepare the mold
Preheat the oven to 170°C (top/bottom heat). Grease the baking pan with butter and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of brown sugar. Arrange the pineapple slices decoratively on top.
Prepare the dough
Separate the eggs, beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt and half the sugar until stiff peaks, and set aside. Beat the egg yolks with the remaining sugar until fluffy. Stir in the butter, vanilla sugar, desiccated coconut, KOMEKO KUCHENGLÜCK, grated orange zest, and baking powder. Fold in the beaten egg whites and spread the mixture on the pineapple slices.
bake a cake
Bake in the oven for 45 minutes, remove from the oven, let cool thoroughly and turn out onto a cake plate.

Tip:You can also use canned pineapple slices.