Thanks so much for this recipe, Catherine! I live in Guatemala and sell cakes on the weekend and people just LOVE this cake! It is so very easy and wonderful because we have fresh pineapple all year round. I never used canned pineapple, just cut the fruit in trunks crush them in a food processor. In time I did made some minor changes, like reducing the sugar and adding more flour and a little bit of oil. People don't seem to mind the consistency, my personal taste though prefers it less gooey (adding some oil and more flour will achieve that). I also use less sugar in the icing, it is way too sweet in my opinion. Great tasting cake!!

I was excited about this recipe because it is so simple and cheap and people seem to love it! Just perfect for what I'm looking for since I bake cakes to sell here in Central America. I wanted to make a kind of chocolate cake (real chocolate is so expensive here) and the ingredients seemed so perfect. But unfortunately I was not so happy with the result. It did rise very nicely but I found the taste rather bland. It lacked a lot of sweetness and chocolate flavour for me. I think I will try this recipe again but changing it up a lot, for example add banana, like one reviewer suggested. I think that would make it much nicer.

Loved the fact that this was so fast, cheap and easy, with on-hand ingredients! I followed the recipe exactly except I skipped the last bit (beating the icing for 3 minutes) because it seemed unnecessary- and it was. Turned out very beautifully. Just like in the pictures it had a very nice shine to it. I didn't have any problems to spread it on cake like other reviewers. I'm giving "only" four stars because it was a bit sticky too eat- but still a great recipe!