If You Like Pina Coladas...

Last week I wanted to try a cake inspired by pina coladas: cream, coconut, pineapple. Some of my favorite things. So I started out with my coconut cake recipe. I added some coconut and rum extract. And, because I bought this super cute pan from Williams-Sonoma a while ago and have yet to use it, the cake turned out like this:

Cute, right? Wouldn't this be cute with some strawberry filling? Or chocolate cake with white filling? or vanilla ice cream? With a chocolate ganache? Ideas for another day.

I made this frosting recipe from allrecipes.com that uses heavy whipping cream and cream cheese. It tastes like whipped cream but is firm enough to frost with and doesn't have to be refrigerated. For the middle layer, I chopped up pineapple (because I didn't have any crushed pineapple) and folded it in.

Then I stacked the other cake and frosted it with the cream frosting.

I toasted some coconut and sprinkled it on top...

And finally piped around the edges.

I refrigerated the cake overnight so it would travel to work easier.

Yum. It was tasty. Next time I'll put a little thicker layer of cream frosting between the cakes, more pineapple, and make sure the cakes are more equal. But seriously....this is good. So. Good. So. Unbelievably. Good. I'm just sayin'.