hummingbird cake
This is a popular recipe at the bake sale. Right up there with carrot cake, which this is very similar to. You could even reduce the bananas to 1 cup and add 1 cup of shredded carrots and a half cup of flaked coconut to make an all new cake! And who doesn't love love love cream cheese icing!
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yield
16 serving(s)
prep time
30 Min
cook time
55 Min
method
Bake
Ingredients For hummingbird cake
- CAKE
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1 cancrushed pineapple, 8oz
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3 cflour, all purpose
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2 tspbaking powder
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1 tspbaking soda
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1 tspcinnamon or apple pie seasoning
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1 tspsalt
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3 lgeggs
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1 cvegetable oil
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c cchopped or mashed bananas
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1 cchopped nuts
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2 tspvanilla
- FROSTING
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1 cbutter, softened
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16 ozsoftened cream cheese
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2 tspvanilla
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32 ozpowered sugar, more or less
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1/2 cchopped nuts for decorating
How To Make hummingbird cake
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1preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 2 9" round cake pans. My mother used to put cut out rounds of wax paper in the bottoms of the cake pans first. I like to use parchment. Either way, it guarantees the cakes will come out of the pans. Set aside pineapple, do not drain!
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2Whisk the dry ingredients together in a medium bowl. (Flour, baking power, baking soda, salt and spices).
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3Mix the sugar and eggs together in a large bowl and mix in the oil. Stir in bananas, pecans, vanilla and pineapple with juice. Now add the flour mixture until just combined.
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4Divide batter evenly between the 2 9" round pans and smooth over the tops. Put in the preheated oven and bake until the center comes out clean, about 50-55 minutes.
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5*You can bake them in 3 8" round cake pans if you want. They will cook faster, more like 25 minutes. Just check them. If they are underdone, it will sink in the middle as it cools.
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6After they are out of the oven, let cool in the pans on a wire rack about 20 minutes. Then remove the cakes from the pans and let continue cooling on racks.
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7For the icing: Beat the butter and cream cheese until well blended. Add the powered sugar, vanilla and salt and continue beating until smooth.
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8Place cake on your platter and top with icing, smoothing it out. Add the other cake layer and top with icing as well. Now ice the sides. I like to add chopped pecans to the top and use icing tips to decorate.Now refrigerate and enjoy cool slices in about an hour!
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