Among the many fruits that make our fingers sticky during the hot summer months, pineapple is one of the tastiest. Its refreshing citrus flavor works well in desserts and fruit salads. Gazzi_Gacela’s recipe for Pineapple Cranberry Salad uses a colorful combination of sweet and healthy ingredients, including pineapple and jello. It’s a fun dessert that comes together in minutes.

Cacheetham’s Pineapple Salsa is another recipe that uses pineapple in a simple and savory way. This would make a fresh topping for a light fish, and I imagine it would even go well with chips. Recipes like this are also great because they inspire creativity in the kitchen; many other tasty ingredients, like cucumber, could easily be added in to enhance the summery flavor of this light salsa.

I was craving a fruit based dessert this weekend, so I decided to put together a pineapple upside down cake. It came out moist and full of flavor; because my kitchen gets turned upside down when I invent new recipes, this cake actually turned out rightside up! If you’d like an easy-to-bake cake recipe with a twist, then this is it!