Pineapple Coffee Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
    1 cup all-purpose flour
    1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar, divided
    1 tablespoon baking powder
    1 teaspoon baking soda
    1/4 teaspoon salt
    1 large egg
    1 cup nonfat plain yogurt
    1/4 cup canola oil
    1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    1 1/2 cups diced pineapple chunks (blotted dry and coarsely chopped)
    1/4 cup pecans
Preparation
    Preheat oven to 350 degrees, and coat an 8 inch square baking pan with cooking spray.
    Whisk both flours, 1/2 cup sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl.
    Whisk egg, yogurt, oil, and vanilla in a large bowl until smooth.
    Add ingredients from step 2 and stir with spatula until blended (Do Not Overmix).
    Fold in pineapple, and scrape batter into prepared pan.
    Combine pecans and remaining 2 tablespoons sugar in a small bowl, and sprinkle over batter.
    Bake cake until the top is golden brown, and a toothpick inserted comes out clean(50-55 minutes.).
    Let cool in pan on a wire rack for 20 minutes.
    Cut into squares and serve warm.

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