Pineapple cake

Ingredients

Cake:
All purpose flour- 1 1/3 cups
Sugar- 3/4 cups
Salt- 1/4 tsp
Baking powder- 1/2 tsp
Vanilla extract- 1 tsp
Eggs- 3
Butter- 3/4 cup
Milk- 3 tbsp
Pineapple cubes and cherries to decorate the top layer

Whipped cream:
Heavy cream- 1 cup
Confectionary sugar- 3 tbsp
Vanilla extract- 1/2 tsp

Pineapple syrup:
Pineapple cubes- 1/2 cup
Water- 1/4 cup
Sugar-2 tbsp

Method

• Bring the butter, egg and milk to room temperature. Keep the bowl you are going to use to make the whipped cream and the heavy cream in the refrigerator.
• Preheat the oven to 360 F. Grease a loaf pan with butter and dust it with flour and set aside.
• In a bowl, whisk together eggs, milk and vanilla extract. 
• In a large mixing bowl, whisk all the dry ingredients.
• Add the butter and half of the egg mixture into the dry ingredients and beat using a hand mixer at medium speed for about 2 minutes. Scrape down the sides.
• Add in the remaining egg mixture to the cake batter and beat for about 30 seconds till the batter becomes creamy and smooth.
• Bake the cake in the loaf pan at 360F for 35 minutes. Check in between because each oven is different.
• While the cake is baking, prepare the whipped cream. Beat the heavy cream, sugar and vanilla extract. Beat at high speed for about 2 -3 minutes or until you get a stiff peak. Keep the whipped cream in the fridge.
• To prepare pineapple syrup, in a sauce pan, add water, sugar and pineapple cubes and cook a while till the pineapple turns mushy. Keep it aside.
• The cake is done when a tooth pick inserted at the center comes out clean.
• Let it cool completely.

Layering:

1. Scrape down the top crust of the cake.
2. Cut it into 2 layers.
3. Keep the bottom layer on a plain surface and just add the pineapple syrup to soak the cake.
4. Apply a layer of whipped cream over that and then place the crushed pineapple cubes.
5. Place the another cake layer and soak it with the syrup and apply the whipped cream and level down and decorate the top with pineapple chunks and cherries.