12 tropical cake recipes

A moist, old-fashioned cake made with a whole unpeeled orange, banana, and raisins chopped in the food processor, baked with buttermilk and cinnamon. Rustic, fruity, and deeply satisfying.

Pina colada pound cake folds crushed pineapple, shredded coconut, and coconut rum into a buttery bundt, then soaks the warm cake in a rum-pineapple glaze. Tropical dessert all year.

Peter Island banana pancakes are fluffy tropical breakfast cakes laced with mashed banana, served with rum-spiked maple syrup. A Caribbean resort favorite at home.

Doctor Bird Cake is a Jamaican-inspired banana and crushed pineapple cake spiced with cinnamon and baked tall in a tube pan. A moist tropical cake also known as hummingbird cake.

Orange-Banana Bundt Cake with fresh orange zest, mashed bananas, sour cream, and a coconut-lined pan for a tropical twist on banana cake. Food processor method.

Palm Beach pineapple squares: a chocolate walnut cake base topped with a lemon-scented pineapple layer, baked together into one tropical dessert bar.

Chocolate coconut cake topped with a boiled coconut-coffee-cocoa glaze that soaks into the warm crumb. Simple pantry ingredients for a rich, fudgy everyday cake with tropical coconut finish.

Pina colada poke cake soaked with a mixture of pina colada drink mix and sweetened condensed milk, topped with whipped cream and coconut. A tropical sheet cake from a box mix.

Toasted coconut layer cake with zesty lime-lemon curd filling and fluffy coconut-crusted seven-minute icing. A tropical showstopper that's equal parts tangy and toasted-sweet.

Pineapple drop cookies with crushed pineapple, brown sugar, walnuts, and raisins. Soft, cake-like cookies with tropical fruit flavor and chewy pockets of nuts and raisins.

Pineapple muffin cookies: soft, cake-like drop cookies made with crushed pineapple and juice, warm nutmeg, and chopped walnuts. The tropical-twist church-supper cookie that's part muffin, part cookie.

Tropical coconut poke cake soaked with cream of coconut and warm crushed pineapple, then piled high with whipped topping and shredded coconut. A potluck showstopper that starts with a box mix.