PINEAPPLE COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Heat oven to 325 degrees. Grease a 12 cup bundt pan. Lightly flour and tap out excess.
• 2. Whisk flour, baking soda and salt together in a medium bowl.
• 3. Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.Beat in eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• 4. Mix yogurt with pineapples in a small bowl.
• 5. Beat flour mixture into butter mixture, low speed, in 3 additions alternating with yogurt mixture, starting and ending with flour. Add coconut extract and vanilla and continue to beat for 3 minutes.
• 6. Pour into prepared bundt pan. Bake for 60 mins at 325 or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Place pan on a wire rack to cool for 15 mins. Then turn out cake on the wire rack to cool completely.
• 7. Whisk together pineapple juice and confectioners sugar and drizzle over cooled cake. sprinkle coconut over glaze.
• 8. Options: You could also add 1 tsp.lime rind to batter and make the glaze using lime juice instead of pineapple to give it a pina colada flavor.