#3123 - Pineapple Nut Bread

(by Becky Lynn Mohr - friend)

3 1/2 cups flour
4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
6 TBSP softened butter
1 1/2 cups Domino's dark brown sugar (packed)
1 1/2 cups chopped macadamia nuts
2 eggs
2 cups Dole crushed pineapple (do NOT drain)
4 TBSP white sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon

Grease two 1 lb. bread loaf pans.  In a bowl add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt--stir. Add macadamia nuts--stir and set aside. In a mixer add butter and brown sugar--beat. Add eggs--beat until smooth. Add half of the flour mixture--beat. Add the crushed pineapple and its juice--beat. Add the rest of the flour mixture--beat until mixed. Pour half of the batter into each of the greased loaf pans. In a small bowl add the white sugar and cinnamon--stir. Sprinkle half of the cinnamon mixture over the top of the batter in each pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes, then loosen and remove bread from both pans and place them on plates to cool.