Pina colada cake & guilty pleasures

[melissa-dallas]

I am embarrassed to admit how much I have loved this cake since I was a teenager. Everyone loves it when I take it somewhere too. You can fancy it up with homemade yellow cake & stabilized real whipped cream if you like. I guess you could consider it white trash tres leches, but we made it many years before I had ever heard of tres leches.

Yellow cake mix, made to box instructions, baked in 13 x 9 pan, still warm

1 can Coco Lopez

1 can Eagle Brand Milk

1 tall can crushed pineapple

1 container cool whip or equivalent amt stabilized whpped cream

1 bag shredded coconut

Poke holes in warm cake. Whisk together Coco Lopez & Eagle Brand milk. Pour over warm cake. Chill. Cover with well-drained pineapple, cream & coconut. Serve cold.

 

[curious1]

Lol Melissa, I've also made and loved it. It hadn't occured to me it was a shortcut Tres Leches.

 

[marilynfl]

Clarification please: 1. Eagle Brand milk: Condensed or Evaporated and

2. Crushed pineapple: Heavy syrup or Juice?
3. Shredded coconut: Sweetened or not?
4: Coco Lopez: Sweetened Cream only.

I'm betting if this is an older recipe, it's going to be sweet all the way: Condensed, Heavy syrup and sweetened.

 

[melissa-dallas]

Here

Sweetened condensed milk, pineapple is squeezed dry so don't think it matters, sweetened shredded coconut, coco lopez is the sweetened stuff you use to make pina coladas-blue can.

 

[marilynfl]

Okey doke! Thanks Melissa. I believe this cake has a date with a bit of rum.

 

[melissa-dallas]

That would work!

 

[cheezz]

Ah, but tres leches is made with a sponge - not regular yellow cake smileys/smile.gif

 

[cheezz]

Frost this with a stabilized whipped cream and you've sold me smileys/smile.gif