Pina Colada Cake

Name: Pina Colada Cake
Yield: Makes one cake
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon, instant tapioca; 1 , pineapple, peeled, cored, and quartered lengthwise; 1/3 cup (2 1/3 ounces), granulated sugar; 1/4 cup, spiced rum; , Salt; 20 tablespoons (2 1/2 sticks), unsalted butter, softened; 3 tablespoons canned, coconut milk; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1/2 teaspoon, coconut extract; 2 1/4 cups (9 ounces), confectioners' sugar; 1 recipe, yellow layer cake; 1 cup (3 ounces) sweetened, shredded coconut, toasted

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2013

Desserts or Baked Goods

Cakes

SERVESMakes one cake

TIME1 hour, plus 4 hours chilling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To turn a classic tropical cocktail into a dessert, we start with a filling made from fresh pineapple. We puree and cook the fruit, thickening it with ground tapioca to produce just the right consistency and flavoring it with—what else—rum....

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