Ambrosia Cake
Description
Take your boring angel food cake and make it heavenly with a few extra ingredients. You will feel like you are in the tropics enjoying all of its fresh fruity flavors.
Ingredients
1 c. pineapple juice
2 eggs
1/2 c. sugar
2 T. unsalted butter
pinch of salt
1 angel food cake mix and ingredients listed on package
16 oz. vanilla frosting
2 t. orange juice
1 T. orange zest
30 oz. mandarin oranges, drained
20 oz. pineapple slices, drained and cut into quarters
8 oz. cream cheese frosting
2 c. sweetened shredded coconut, toasted
Directions
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Pineapple curd:
Place juice from the canned pineapple in a sauce pan and bing to a boil. Whisk together eggs and sugar in medium bowl; add to pineapple juice, whisking continuously over medium heat until it becomes thick, about 3-4 minutes. Remove from heat, stir in butter and salt. Pour in a small bowl, cover with plastic wrap. Rfrigerate 1 hour.
Cake:
Bake cake according to package directions. When cooled, slice horizontally into 3 even layers.
Combine vanilla frosting, orange juice and orange zest; stir.
Place bottom layer of cake on a cake plate, spread 1/2 of orange frosting on bottom layer, top with mandarin oranges.
Place a second layer of cake on top, spread pineapple curd over this layer and top with 4 slices of pineapple rings cut into halves.
Add third layer of cake, frost all around the sides with remaining orange frosting. Frost top with cream cheese frosting.
Cut 4 pineapple rings into quarters; layer on top of cream cheese frosting. Add the second can of mandarin oranges on this layer with the pineapple.
Press toasted coconut into sides and on top of cake.
Serves 12.