Texas Tornado Cake

This Texas Tornado cake, also known as a Do Nothing Tornado cake, is a quick and easy, classic southern dessert.

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Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and the salt.

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Add the eggs, oil, vanilla, and the can of crushed pineapple.

Pour cake batter into the prepared 9x13 cake pan. And bake.

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Using the back of a wooden spoon or chopstick, make holes in the cake top.

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Heat your butter, sugar, evaporated milk, and vanilla until it begins to boil.

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Stir in pecans and coconut. Remove from icing from the heat.

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Pour hot topping over the top of the cake and spread topping evenly with a spatula.

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Frozen Texas Toast In Air Fryer

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