Do you think this recipe will work? Coconut and chocolate truffle cake with pineapple.

[Flamingoose]

I have a big folder of recipes, mostly given by friends. You know when you like a recipe and someone jots it down for you?

I just found a mystery recipe in the folder and I'm intrigued. It's a printed email but I cut off who it's from. No clue. It goes like this:

Coconut and Chocolate Truffle Cake with Pineapple
350g fresh pineapple
4 tbs dark rum
1 tsp vanilla extract
200g good dark chocolate
100g unsalted butter or vegan margarine
175g creamed coconut
200g ginger biscuits

"I can't find the instructions - I think you marinade the pineapple in the rum, melt the choc and add the rest (smash up the ginger bics) and place in a bread type tin in the fridge until set"

And that's it. A sort of fridge cake I suppose? Do you think I'm supposed to put the pineapple in it, or have it on the side? It wouldn't set with pineapple in it, would it?

I couldn't get cream of coconut but I got condensed coconut milk which is surely much the same?

Looks like a vegan ganache with added biscuits so yes like a fridge cake. The pineapple must be to serve on the side. Although pineapple and chocolate feels like a weird combination!

Pineapple sounds a horrible combination with those ingredients, and I'd be worried the acid would make the fat curdle. I'd make it without the pineapple, personally.

Dunno about the whole thing BUT cream of c is def not the same as c milk. Cream of c is like a solid fat, more like a block of butter. So would be like the solid fat in a tiffin recipe that will set in the fridge. C milk will not set!

Well yes, but I bought CONDENSED coconut milk which is thick and sweet. Like condensed milk.

Cream of coconut is not creamy in texture, it's a solid block. Not at all like condensed milk

How did this turn out? I'm intrigued to know if the acidic pineapple wreaked unholy havoc on the chocolate or if it was a taste sensation.

Recipe here

https://www.bigoven.com/recipe/coconut-and-chocolate-truffle-cake-with-pineapple/1599267

Oh wow. Well done @Greengr ! I didn't even think of trying to find it online!

Haven' made it yet. Got all the ingredients (well, wrong coconut) but everyone got sick so it's on hold.

Please make it! I've got a Bajan friend of mine who'd love this but other people I know would like it too.