I haven't made this gooey dessert in years. I used to love making this simple yet uplifting confection - bake one yellow cake (use pineapple juice for the liquid), top with a mixture of vanilla pudding and crushed pineapple covered with whipped cream and maraschino cherries.
Guaranteed to make your tummy and your eyes happy all at once! After such a long winter, we needed a break, and with a staff birthday to celebrate, this seemed just the ticket.
I looked up all the books on Hawaii we have in our library (16) and pulled them into the staff lounge. Pictures were good, the children's book on a Hawaiian princess was a quick read, the tales of Mark Twain in his Letters from Hawaii an amusing tale of disgruntledness with photography (so out of place in Rochester, home of George Eastman of Eastman Kodak fame).
OK, the Hawaiian punch wasn't the greatest, but the cake went over well. I always thought the "surprise" in the title was the pineapple. Turns out the surprise is the lift in your spirits after weeks of snow and single digit temps!
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