The other day when I made the Toasted Coconut Chicken Bites with Pineapple Salsa I thought to myself,
"Self, you love pineapple. The Pineapple Upside Down Cake was delicious and that's the only thing you've made with pineapple besides the chicken."
"LET'S MAKE BREAD!!"
"Bananas go in bread. Lemons, carrots and zucchini go in bread, why not pineapple?!"
Of course, it'd already been done.
But that's ok, Christina's recipe at Sweet Pea's Kitchen sounded really good!
So I went with hers and made a couple of changes.
Pineapple Bread - makes 1 9 X 5-inch loaf
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 eggs
1 cup Greek yogurt
1 20 oz. can pineapple tidbits
1/2 cup unsweetened coconut, toasted
To toast coconut:
Preheat oven to 300ºF. Spread coconut in a single layer onto a rimmed baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for approximately 5-10 minutes, checking and stirring after 5 minutes. Coconut will be finished when it is golden in color, but be careful not to burn.
Bread
Increase oven temperature to 350ºF.
Pour pineapple into a fine mesh sieve placed over a medium bowl. Allow pineapple to drain as completely as possible, about 10 minutes.
Generously butter and flour a 9 X 5 loaf pan.
In a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
In a mixing bowl fitted with a paddle attachment, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. This should take about 5-7 minutes.
Add eggs, one at a time, incorporating each completely before adding the next.
Alternately add the flour and the Greek yogurt, beginning and ending with the flour.
Say it with me, flour, yogurt, flour, yogurt, flour.
Mix the final bit of flour in until just combined.
Fold pineapple into batter.
Pour into prepared loaf pan.
With a rubber spatula, smooth the top and sprinkle toasted coconut on top.
Bake for 30 minutes, cover bread with foil, and bake for another 30-40 minutes for a total baking time of 60-70 minutes.
Cool bread in pan for 20 minutes and remove from pan.
Whoops!
Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Obviously, I didn't have good luck removing the bread from the pan, I used my stoneware loaf pan and I've never had a problem removing anything, so I didn't think twice about greasing or flouring it.
That is, of course, until today.
I'll put a picture up of the cut slices tomorrow.
I rate everything I bake on a scale of 1-4 with 4 being the best and this Pineapple Bread earned 3 rolling pins.
I liked the taste of the batter before I even added the pineapple, so I knew this stuff was going to be good.
It was so moist because of the yogurt and the pineapple in it definitely reminded me of that Pineapple Upside Down Cake.
YUM!!!
I'm very glad I made this and I'm even happier that it turned out so well!
Time to call it a night!
Tomorrow, an inspiration that came to me after being so completely unmotivated this morning.
See, you just can't give up. Even when you don't think anything will come to you and you think you're tapped out,
VOILA!
Stand in the shower long enough with the hot water relaxing you, something's bound to come into your brain.
I give you BIG baking hugs and muffins!!
That looks really good! My two favorites- Pineapples and coconut. I'm not much of a baker but I would like to give this a try soon :)
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ReplyDeleteYour bread sounds so yummy. I hate when cakes and breads break apart on the lift off. So not right! Thank you so much for your nice comment on my post yesterday. Teens can be so fun. I just can't figure them out sometimes. I have a really sweet son but man oh man, I do want to strangle the boy now and then and say, "What are you so mad about? I make your meals, support you 24/7, give you and your friends rides everywhere and yet I get wrath sometimes?" I call BS. Did you ever play that card came as a kid?
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