Pineapple Coconut Cake Bars Recipe
Dessert bars made from crushed pineapple, coconut flakes with a flaky crust and crumb topping.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1 cup Coconut Flakes (can be toasted if preferred)
- ½ cup Granulated Sugar
- ½ tsp Baking Soda
- ½ tsp Baking Powder
- ¼ tsp Salt
- ½ cup Butter (melted & cooled)
- 1 20 oz can Crushed Pineapple (drained)
- 3 tbsp Granulated Sugar
- 2 tbsp Cornstarch
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Spray an 8" square baking dish with cooking spray
- In a medium bowl, mix flour, coconut flakes, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, & salt.
- Melt butter and then set aside to cool for 5 minutes; then place in the refrigerator for 4 minutes to ensure that it is cool enough to add to the flour mixture.
- Add cooled butter to flour mixture and press with a large, sturdy fork until well blended and the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Reserve one cup of the flour mixture and set aside.
- Press the remaining flour mixture into the bottom of the glass baking dish to form the bottom crust.
- In a separate bowl, combine the drained crushed pineapple, sugar, and cornstarch.
- Pour mixture over the pressed crust and spread evenly.
- Sprinkle remaining 1 cup of flour mixture on top of the pineapple filling.
- Bake bars on center rack of oven for 30 minutes or until topping is golden. My oven took 35 minutes.
- Cool bars completely before cutting.