Pineapple Zucchini Finally Done

I got the pineapple zucchini done!

There are 9 pints there but it’s 7 pints of pineapple zucchini and 2 pints of juice that was leftover (the mixture of sugar, lemon juice and pineapple juice). It’s kinda strong in a syrupy kind of way but delicious. I tasted it and immediately thought of a frozen drink with ice, the pineapple syrup and Captain Morgan! So, I canned the juice and one day soon, I’m going to try that.

I used one of the pints of pineapple zucchini that I had canned last week and made the pineapple zucchini cake. It’s from the same blog that has the pineapple zucchini recipe I’ve been making.

As far as the recipe for the cake, I got ready to make it and what??? It uses a cake mix. I’m not much on storebought cake mixes so I used this recipe for the dry ingredients (just flour, sugar, salt and baking powder), then added a stick of butter, melted, 3 eggs, a pint of the canned pineapple zucchini (juice and zucchini) and I added a bit of milk (maybe 1/4 cup) to get it the consistence I thought it should be, and a bit of vanilla. I baked it in a greased 9 x 13 pan at 350 for 30 to 35 minutes. I didn’t time it but checked it with a toothpick and took it out when it appeared to be done.

Let the cake cool completely before adding icing (but I didn’t!) 🙂

For the icing, I mixed powdered sugar with softened butter (soft from sitting on the counter). For the liquid, I used pineapple juice and milk to get it to the consistency and then added just a bit of vanilla.

It’s really a good cake and it tastes just like real pineapple. I asked Vince if I hadn’t told him it wasn’t pineapple, would he know and he said no . . tastes just like pineapple.

We started talking about could you do this with apples or peaches or pears. I think those things are less expensive when they’re in season so I’d probably just use apples, peaches or pears but pineapples . . they’re not often inexpensive and they’re not often good.

The USDA says it takes on average 21 pounds of pineapple to can 7 quarts. I can grow enough zucchini for almost nothing to make way more zucchini pineapple than that. Granted .. there are recipes where I would want real pineapple but when a recipe calls for crushed pineapple or tidbits . . zucchini works!