Cake ingredients:

• 4-5 cups fresh pineapple chunks, strained {-- enough to line the bottom of a pie plate. Mine were cut into 1" squares. Reserve any juice and set aside}
• 2 ½ cups raw almonds
• 2 ½ tbsp tapioca starch
• 1 tbsp ground flax seeds
• ½ cup olive oil {or another cooking oil like coconut, etc.}
• 1 cup maple syrup {or another liquid sweetener of your choice}
• 2 tbsp reserved pineapple juice {or water}
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• ⅛ tsp raw ground vanilla {or 1 tsp pure vanilla extract}
• dash of salt

Toppings ideas:

• Chopped almonds, whole flax seeds, cacao nibs {I used all three}. Other nuts or seeds or a chocolate drizzle would work great here too.