I recently completed a Mission for Social Fabric #CBias using Clear American Flavored Waters. My mission was to substitute the Clear American Water into one of my recipes OR create a new one using the waters in place of other ingredients. I actually had two recipes that I was dying to try it in. I used the Key Lime in our Halloween Toxic Punch and the Pineapple Coconut in my Pina Colada cake. Both were PERFECT!
My husband and I were planning on hosting a Halloween Costume party with our family. Each year, I make a Halloween Toxic Punch that is a hit with the kids. It contains Gummy Body Parts and has just the right amount of “ick” factor while still be very tasty. You can use it for every occasion just by leaving the candies out.
So, the Hubby and I grabbed our shopping list & headed to Walmart in search of the ingredients I would need for both the punch AND my Pina Colada cake. This cake is very much like a Pineapple upside Down Cake but also contains coconut, rum or rum extract and one secret ingredient I can’t tell you about in the recipe below because it is my secret. Don’t worry, yours will be close enough in taste and super delicious, I promise, just not quite as moist and rich. Hey, it’s a family secret, I’m sorry! :0)
We found several flavors of Clear American water for only 64 cents. That price is crazy good! The Key lime will be perfect for the punch and the Pineapple Coconut is exactly what I need for the cake. SCORE!
You can see full photos on my Google+ Story but the recipes are below.
Ingredients
- One Pineapple Supreme Cake mix (Duncan Hines)
- 5 oz can crushed pineapple
- 2 5 oz cans pineapple slices
- 3 eggs
- 1/3 C pineapple juice
- 1 C Pineapple Coconut Clear American Flavored Water
- 2 - 3 teaspoons Rum extract
- 1/2 C Butter, melted
- 1 C light brown sugar
- 1 C shredded coconut
Instructions
- Pour 1/3 cup of pineapple juice from your sliced pineapple into a measuring cup.
- Add 1 cup Pineapple Coconut water to this to equal 1 1/3 Cup of liquid.
- Break 3 eggs into large mixing bowl.
- Add cake mix.
- Next, add 5 oz can of crushed pineapple.
- Then add your measured liquid. (Pineapple juice and Pineapple Coconut Clear American Water)
- To that, add 2 - 3 teaspoons of Rum extract OR regular rum if you want to go the alcohol route. It does work just as well.
- Mix for 2 minutes in your mixer.
- Melt 1/2 cup of butter in a large iron skillet, in preheated 350 degree oven.
- To that, add 1/2 to 1 cup of light brown sugar.
- Press it in butter with the bottom of your measuring cup.
- Arrange pineapple slices and maraschino cherries in a pretty pattern, then sprinkle generously with coconut.
- Pour cake batter over coconut.
- Bake at 350 degrees for approx. 30 minutes.
- Allow to cool completely, then turn your beautiful cake on to a cake plate.
- Then slice and enjoy! It also goes well with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
The second recipe I created was our Halloween Toxic Punch, replacing our usual Ginger Ale with Key lime flavored Clear American Water. See full photo slideshow in our Google+ Story. It was super delish!
This water is so good! It works great in both recipes and there are so many flavors I could probably substitute the water in most every recipe I have!
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Ingredients
- 1 package gummy Halloween body parts
- 64 ounces Juicy Juice Punch
- 1 Bottle Key lime Clear American Flavored Water
- 1 tub Lime sherbet
- Optional: 1 bag of frozen berries
Instructions
- Place gummy Halloween body parts in punch bowl
- Pour 64 ounces of Juicy juice Fruit Punch over gummy candies
- Scoop entire tub of lime sherbet into punch
- Pour 1 bottle of Key Lime Clear American Flavored water into punch bowl slowly. It will be fizzy.
- Serve and Enjoy. Easy Peasy!
- Optional: You can also add a bag of frozen berries to add to the "ick" factor!
Disclosure: This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias, which is a vendor for Cott Beverages Inc., the manufacturer of Clear American® brand beverages. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.
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What a creative use! My husband would love a Pina Colada cake too…he really likes the Pineapple Coconut Clear American water.
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Your cake looks delightful! Do you have a Christmas one you do also that has secret family ingredients too? Looking forward to seeing what else you put together!
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Thank you very much @Nicole (SAHM Reviews)!
Actually I do have a Jam Cake that I make at Christmas and a Rum Cake. The Jam Cake uses the same tube pan and is my great grandmother’s recipe. It is also her pan. My grandmother is 88 & it was her mother’s so no telling how old the pan is!
I’ll post the recipe pretty soon. I might even include the secrets! hehehehe
Wow, this actually looks as if it was made with dish washing liquid. I love making scary Halloween snacks. This year we tried a few recipes as well. My favorite, because it contained beluga caviar, was a black-bean dip with red caviar on top, and we made it look like it was a poisonous mushroom. But we also used black caviar to create illusions of skin-disease on fake limbs which were made of white bread with s sour cream coating, and under each spot of caviar we put some ketchup to make it look bloody and oozing. It was delicious of course, but looked totally disgusting.