make your own butter cake or buy Dunkin Hines butter loaf cake mix and follow box directions. when when done baking butter cake let cool in fridge.

using a large bowl pour the whole can of crushed pineapples and mix with instant vanilla powder and let chill in fridge.

when ready to frost cake add cool whip to bowl mixture and combine.

frost your cake and enjoy.

I think you can add coconut flakes or use a different fruit or even sprinkle some kind of nuts over it if you want to bring it up a notch. this isn't my recipe a neighbor gave it to me but I think she might have taken it from the net.