Best Tropical Fruit Cake Recipes

ORANGE ANGEL FOOD CAKE WITH CARAMEL SAUCE AND TROPICAL-FRUIT COMPOTE

Steps:

• For sauce:
• Combine sugar and 1/3 cup water in heavy medium saucepan. Stir over medium-low heat until sugar dissolves. Increase heat to medium-high; boil without stirring until syrup is deep amber, occasionally brushing down sides of pan with wet pastry brush and swirling pan, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Carefully add cream (mixture will bubble vigorously). Place pan over low heat; stir until caramel bits dissolve and sauce is smooth. Remove from heat; add butter, cardamom, and pinch of salt. Stir until butter melts. Cool.DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 week ahead. Cover; chill. Bring to room temperature or rewarm over low heat before using.
• For cake:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Sift powdered sugar, flour, and salt 3 times. Place in medium bowl.
• Using electric mixer, beat egg whites in large bowl until foamy. Add cream of tartar; beat until whites are opaque and soft peaks form. Gradually add superfine sugar, beating until whites are thick and shiny and fluffy peaks form (peaks should droop over gently; do not overbeat). Add orange peel and vanilla; beat just until blended. Sift 1/4 of flour mixture over whites. Using large rubber spatula, gently fold flour mixture into whites. Repeat with remaining flour mixture in 3 more additions. Transfer batter to ungreased 10-inch-diameter angel food cake pan with removable bottom and 4-inch-high sides (do not use nonstick pan); smooth top.
• Bake cake until golden and springy to touch, about 50 minutes. Immediately invert pan onto work surface if pan has feet, or invert center tube of pan onto neck of bottle or funnel. Cool cake completely.
• Gently tap bottom edge of pan on work surface while rotating pan until cake loosens. Transfer to platter. DO AHEAD: Can be made 8 hours ahead. Cover with cake dome; let stand at room temperature.
• For compote:
• Cut all peel and white pith from oranges. Using small sharp knife and working over bowl to catch juices, cut between membranes to release orange segments into bowl. Squeeze remaining juice from membranes into bowl. If orange segments are large, cut each in half or thirds. Cut passion fruits in half; scoop out pulp and add to orange segments. Add remaining fruits, sugar, mint, and pinch of salt. Toss gently to combine. DO HEAD: an be made 2 hours ahead. Cover and chill.
• Slice cake; transfer to plates. Spoon compote alongside; top with caramel.

ANGEL FOOD CAKE WITH TROPICAL FRUIT COMPOTE

Steps:

• For the cake: Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
• Sift the flour together with 1/2 cup of the sugar and set aside.
• Put the egg whites in the bowl of an electric mixer. Be SURE that the bowl is clean and dry, any fat in the bowl can prevent the egg whites from whipping up fluffy fluffy fluffy! Add the salt and the cream of tartar to the egg whites. Beat the egg whites on a medium-high speed until they reach soft peaks, about 5 minutes.
• While the mixer is running, gradually add the remaining sugar. DO NOT plop the sugar in all at once or it will push the air out of the whites that we are trying to beat in. Add in the vanilla and zests and then stop the mixer. Add 1/3 of the flour/sugar mixture and fold gently fold, do this quickly but gently. Repeat the process 2 more times until all of the flour/sugar mixture is incorporated.
• Transfer the cake batter into an ungreased tube pan. Bang the cake pan on the counter a couple of times to release any air bubbles trapped in the cake batter.
• Bake the cake on a sheet tray in the preheated oven until it is light and springy, about 1 1/4 hours. Cool the cake for at least 1 hour before unmolding. Serve with the tropical fruit compote.
• For the compote: In a food processor or blender, puree the coarsely chopped mango and 1/2 cup orange juice. If this mixture needs a little more sweetness, add in the 2 teaspoons of sugar and puree for another 10 seconds or until the sugar has dissolved.
• Combine all of the fruit and remaining orange juice and let the mixture sit at room temperature for 20 to 30 minutes.
• Serve slices of the cake drizzled with the mango puree and sprinkled generously with the fruit compote. Garnish with mint and serve.
• Wow! How tropical-fruity and the cake is light as air!

GRILLED POUND CAKE; MEXICAN CHOCOLATE SAUCE & TROPICAL FRUIT

Steps:

• MAKE THE WHIPPED CREAM:
• In a medium bowl, using an electric mixer, softly whip the heavy cream.
• Add the confectioners' sugar, rum and vanilla and whip the cream until firm peaks form.
• Refrigerate the whipped cream.
• MAKE THE CHOCOLATE SAUCE:
• In a medium saucepan, bring the heavy cream to a simmer over moderately high heat with the cinnamon and chile powder.
• Add the chocolate chips and vanilla.
• Remove from the heat and let stand for 1 minute, then whisk to blend; keep warm.
• MAKE THE FRUIT SALAD:
• In a medium bowl, toss the mango and papaya with the basil and vanilla.
• PREPARE THE POUND CAKE:
• Light a grill or preheat a grill pan.
• Butter both sides of the pound cake slices.
• Grill the pound cake over moderate heat, turning once, until golden, about 2 minutes per side.
• Set a slice of grilled pound cake on each of 6 plates and top each one with 3 tablespoons of the warm chocolate sauce and the fruit salad.
• Top each serving with a dollop of the rum whipped cream and sprinkle with the toasted almonds.
• Pass the remaining chocolate sauce at the table.
• **MAKE AHEAD The whipped cream and fruit salad can be refrigerated for up to 4 hours; whip the cream gently before serving. The chocolate sauce can be refrigerated for up to 2 days; rewarm before serving.

COCONUT MUG CAKE WITH COCONUT WHIPPED CREAM AND TROPICAL FRUIT

Steps:

• For the coconut cake and tropical fruit salad: Scatter the sweetened flake coconut over a microwave-safe dinner plate and toast in the microwave for 2 minutes. Stir the coconut flakes and microwave until golden, an additional 1 to 2 minutes.
• While the coconut flakes toast, mix together the strawberries, mango, kiwi, honey, lime juice and 1/4 teaspoon of the lime zest in a medium bowl.
• In another medium bowl, mix together the melted butter, beaten egg, vanilla extract, cream of coconut and sour cream thoroughly. Mix in the flour until smooth. Mix in most of the toasted coconut flakes, setting aside 1 tablespoon for garnish.
• Butter two 10-ounce mugs (I keep old butter wrappers in the fridge exactly for this purpose). Lightly dust the bottoms and sides with flour. Split the cake batter evenly between the mugs. Microwave each cake until the center springs back to the touch, 2 to 2 1/2 minutes.
• For the coconut whipped cream: While the cakes cook, whip the heavy cream to soft peaks. Add the cream of coconut and whip to stiff peaks.
• Top the cakes with the coconut whipped cream, fruit salad and remaining 1 tablespoon toasted coconut flakes and 1/4 teaspoon lime zest. Buen provecho!

POUND CAKE WITH TROPICAL FRUIT AND RUM-APRICOT SAUCE

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, mix the apricot jam with the water, rum and fruit.Bring to a boil over medium heat. Boil until sauce is thickened and syrupy, about 5 minutes. Cool slightly.
• To serve: place a slice or two of pound cake in serving plate, top with some fruit and syrup. Garnish with a dollop of whipped cream.

CHOCOLATE-PECAN CAKE WITH TROPICAL-FRUIT CUSTARD SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Butter the inside of a nine-inch cake pan. Place a round of parchment or waxed paper, cut to fit, in the bottom of the pan. Butter the round of paper. Add about one tablespoon of flour to the buttered pan and shake it around to coat the bottom and sides of the pan. Shake out excess.
• Combine the cream and four tablespoons of butter in a saucepan. When the mixture simmers, add all the chocolate and stir around the bottom and sides until melted. Remove from the heat and let stand.
• Break the eggs into a heat-proof earthenware or metal mixing bowl. Stir in the sugar and vanilla. Place the bowl over - not in - a basin of simmering water, beating the mixture vigorously with a wire whisk.
• After about one minute, when the eggs are warm and not overly heated, remove the bowl from the basin and beat with an electric mixer.
• Continue beating until the mixture is tripled in volume and reaches room temperature, about 7 to 10 minutes.
• Scrape about one-third of the chocolate mixture into a large mixing bowl. Add about one-third of the egg mixture and blend well with a spatula. Add the remaining egg mixture and fold it in. Fold in the remaining chocolate mixture and stir in the pecans.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Smooth over the top.
• Place the cake pan in a larger pan and pour boiling water around the cake pan. Place in the oven and bake 45 to 50 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
• Remove the cake from the oven and let it sit in the water bath about 30 minutes. Remove the cake from the water bath and wipe off the bottom of the pan. Invert the cake onto a platter, remove the round of paper and let stand to room temperature. Serve with tropical-fruit custard sauce.

TROPICAL FRUIT AND CAKE TRIFLE

Steps:

• Make pudding as directed on package. Heat oven to 350°. Line a 13" x 17" baking pan with parchment paper; coat with cooking spray. In a bowl, combine 3/4 cup sugar, flour and salt. In another bowl, beat egg whites with an electric mixer until foamy. Add cream of tartar; beat until soft peaks form. Slowly add remaining 3/4 cup sugar, beating until mixture is thick and shiny. Fold flour mixture into egg mixture in four batches; spread batter in pan. Bake until golden, 20 to 25 minutes. Loosen sides of cake with a knife; let cool. In a bowl, microwave jam for 30 seconds. Invert cake on cutting board; spread with jam and cut into 2-inch squares. In a nonstick pan over medium-high heat, toast coconut, stirring, 4 minutes. In another bowl, beat cream and coconut extract with an electric mixer until peaks form. Reserve 1/4 cup whipped cream. Fold pudding and 1/4 cup coconut into remaining whipped cream. In a large glass bowl, assemble trifle: Layer 1/3 cake squares, 1/3 fruit and 1/3 pudding mixture; repeat twice. Top with remaining 1/4 cup whipped cream and 1/4 cup coconut.

TROPICAL-FRUIT CREPE CAKE

Steps:

• Pastry cream: In a large sauce-pan, bring milk, coconut, and salt to just under a boil. Remove from heat, cover, and let stand until cool, about 2 hours. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve; discard solids.
• In a medium saucepan, whisk together granulated sugar and cornstarch. Whisk in egg yolks, then milk mixture. Stir in butter. Bring to a boil over medium heat, then continue to cook, whisking constantly, 1 minute. Pass mixture through fine-mesh sieve. Cover with plastic wrap, pressing it directly onto surface of pastry cream to prevent a skin from forming. Refrigerate until chilled, at least 2 hours and up to 3 days.
• Crêpes: Combine flour, granulated sugar, salt, milk, eggs, vanilla, and melted butter in a blender. Blend until smooth. Refrigerate at least 1 hour and up to overnight.
• Lightly brush an 8-inch non-stick skillet or crêpe pan with butter. Heat over medium until just starting to smoke. Remove from heat and pour a scant 2 tablespoons batter into center, swirling to cover bottom. Cook until edges are golden and center is dry, about 30 seconds. Flip and cook about 20 seconds more. Slide crêpe onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Repeat with remaining batter, brushing skillet with more butter and adjusting heat as needed; stack crêpes as you go (you should end up with about 40). Let cool completely. Crêpes can be refrigerated in an airtight container up to 3 days.
• Whisk chilled pastry cream to remove any lumps. In a medium bowl, whip 1 cup heavy cream to stiff peaks. Fold into pastry cream. Place a crêpe on a flat serving dish. Spread about 1/4 cup pastry cream onto crêpe. Repeat process with remaining crêpes and pastry cream, finishing with a crêpe. Refrigerate until set, at least 2 hours and up to overnight.
• To serve, whip remaining 1 cup heavy cream with confectioners' sugar to stiff peaks. Arrange pineapple slices on top of cake, overlapping slightly. Dollop whipped cream on top and garnish with toasted coconut.

POUND CAKE WITH TROPICAL FRUIT AND RUM-APRICOT SAUCE

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, mix the apricot jam with the water, rum and fruit.Bring to a boil over medium heat. Boil until sauce is thickened and syrupy, about 5 minutes. Cool slightly.
• To serve: place a slice or two of pound cake in serving plate, top with some fruit and syrup. Garnish with a dollop of whipped cream.

TROPICAL FRUIT CAKE (1963)

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 300 F
• 2. Prepare baking pan, standard size, 10x4, one-piece tube pan, by greasing all of the interior with butter. Cover bottom, sides, and tube with wax paper (or parchment paper if you prefer). Then grease the waxed paper as you did the pan. Flour the pan, shaking out the excess.
• 3. MAKING THE CAKE: Add baking powder to flour and sift three times. Blend butter and sugar with coloring added.
• 4. Cream butter and sugar (for 15 minutes -- watch the clock)-- add one egg and cream a little longer, then add the other four eggs and beat for two minutes.
• 5. Reduce speed of mixer to add the pineapple with the juice and blend for 2 minutes.
• 6. Add the coconut and blend for 2 more minutes.
• 7. Add the nuts and blend for 2 minutes.
• 8. Reduce mixer to slowest speed and begin adding alternately 1/3 of the flour and 1/2 of the milk blending for a minute between each addition until all is blended in. (You will start and end with flour) Scrape the sides of the bowl occasionally so batter will be well mixed.
• 9. Spoon the batter into the pan (using a spoon or cup) and level the batter in the pan by spreading with the back of a spoon. Do not tilt the pan as you place it in the oven.
• 10. Bake 300 F for 1 hour and 20-30 minutes. When checker comes out clean the cake is done.
• 11. Place pan on cooling rack for about 10 minutes, then invert on cooling rack, remove waxed paper, and invert once more onto cake plate. When the cake is fully cooled, frost with butter lemon icing.
• 12. MAKING THE LEMON BUTTER ICING: Blend the cream gradually into the sugar, stirring all the time, now blend in the melted butter, and the lemon juice, Whip with tablespoon until well creamed and ready to spread. If too thin, add a little more sugar, if too thick, just a little more butter. For coloring add 3 drops of green coloring before whipping.
• 13. NOTE: to turn this into His "Fiesta Fruit Cake" add one 9.5 ounce jar of Maraschino cherries , drained, chopped fine (all except 7 slices) which you reserve to garnish the top.

TROPICAL FRUIT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Mix cake mix, oranges with juice and eggs.
• Beat till well mix around 2 minutes.
• Pour into prepared pan 13 by 9 and spread.
• Bake 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
• Let cool completely.
• Mix cool whip, pudding and pineapple.
• Spread on cooled cake and refridgerate till ready to serve and any leftovers.
• Can use sugar free coolwhip and sugar free pudding. You might try to mix a ripe banana in with the oranges in the cake and about 1/2 cup coconut in with the frosting. Sounds yummy to me.

JELLY FRUIT CAKE - THE BEST TROPICAL AGAR AGAR JELLY FRUIT CAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• Cut all your fruits as required, I do not chop the grapes and pomegranate
• Making the agar-agar mixture
• In a bowl, combine the cold water and agar-agar and stir well. The mixture should have no lumps. Once mixed put this in a pan, switch on the gas and stir until all the agar-agar has dissolved. Bring the mixture to a boil for a minute and add the sugar and essence of your choice. Stir well and switch off the gas once sugar is dissolved
• Assemble the fruits
• In a 7-inch aluminum dish, you need to pour a little of the agar-agar mixture in it and assemble the fruits as you'd like. Remember you will tilt the cake once firm so all the pretty effects of the fruits should be facing downwards while you doing the placement in the dish. Once all the fruits are placed, pour all the agar- agar mixture onto the fruits and let set in the fridge for 5 mins or until slightly firm.
• In a bowl, combine cold water and the agar-agar powder. Mix well till no lumps. Transfer this mixture into a pan and add the coconut cream to it. Switch on the gas and add the vanilla pod to the mixture as well. Bring this mixture to a boil stirring constantly making sure the agar-agar has completely melted. Add the sugar, let it melt and switch the gas. Pour this mixture on top of the first layer that was kept to set in the fridge. Make sure to do so when the coconut mixture is still piping hot. Set this layer in the fridge for 5 mins or until slightly firm
• In a bowl, you need to combine cold mixed fruit juice and agar-agar, stir well until no lumps. Transfer this mixture to a pan and on medium flame cook until the agar-agar has completely dissolved. Then bring to a boil just for 30 seconds and switch off the gas, do not over boil this mixture or else it will not set. Once done add sugar as needed and pour the piping hot mixture on top of the set coconut layer. Refrigerate for 8 to 10 hours and unmold using the technique I shared above

TROPICAL FRUIT FLING CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour 13 x 9-inch pan. In large bowl, combine cake mix, reserved 1/2 cup pineapple liquid, oil and eggs at low speed until moistened beat 2 minutes at high speed. Fold in 1/2 cup of the pineapple, reserving remaining pineapple for topping. Pour batter into greased and floured pan. Bake at 350°F. for 35 to 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.Meanwhile, melt margarine in medium saucepan. Stir in reserved pineapple and remaining topping ingredients. Carefully spread over hot cake, covering completely. Broil 3 to 5 inches from heat for 3 to 5 minutes or until topping is bubbly. Cool completely. Store in refrigerator.HIGH ALTITUDE - Above 3,500 feet: Add 1/3 cup flour to dry cake mix add 1/3 cup water to cake batter. Bake as directed above.Nutrition Per Serving: Calories 420 Protein 4g Carbohydrate 58g Fat 19g Sodium 360mgFrom "Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off® Cookbook." Copyright 2004 General Mills. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

TROPICAL FRUIT CAKE

Steps:

• 1 - 2 nights before baking the fruit cake, soak all the fruit in the rum (stir occasionally) Before baking, drain the fruit and reserve all the rum. Preheat oven to 275, spray pans with non-stick and dust with flour Cream the butter and sugar Add the eggs one at a time until fully encorporated Add 1 cup of the fruit and molasses until blended Sift in the flour and allspice Add the remaining fruit and all the nuts Divide among pans evenly and bake until tester in center comes out clean (about 1 ½ - 2 hours) Remove from oven and brush all the cakes generously with the soaking rum.