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Submitted by: Janice Capladi
August 2002

Ingredients:


CAKE:
1 yellow cake mix
8 T butter (1 stick), melted
1 cup � & �
4 eggs

TOPPING LAYERS:
1 (20 oz) can crushed pineapple (packed in juice)
1 cup sugar
2 pkgs, vanilla instant pudding
2T vanilla extract, divided
1 8 oz pkg cream cheese, softened
3 cups � & �
� pt carton whipping cream, � cup sugar
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup grated coconut

Preheat oven to 350*.  Grease a 9x13 pan.

Combine & mix together cake ingredients.  Pour into 9x13 greased pan, and bake in 350* oven for 30 minutes.

While cake is baking, place pineapple & 1 cup sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat.  Cook, stirring, until sugar is dissolved & the mixture comes to a boil for 2 minutes.  Set aside.

Poke holes in the warm cake (with a chopstick or drinking straw), and spoon the pineapple mixture evenly over the cake.  Set aside.

Place the pudding mix, softened cream cheese, 1T vanilla extract & 3 cups of � & � in a mixing bowl.  Blend, then beat well.  Spread this mixture over the pineapple layer.  Chill cake for 30 minutes.

Next, beat the whipping cream, � cup sugar & 1T vanilla extract together in a small, chilled mixing bowl.  Stir in the coconut, and the walnuts.  Spread this mixture over the pudding layer.

Chill the cake for at least one hour before serving.
Pineapple Paradise Cake
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