hummingbird cake. Hummingbird Cake is a Southern classic! It's a spiced pineapple-banana cake topped with cream cheese frosting and pecans. Serve it for Easter or any family gathering.

Hummingbird cake started life as a spice cake with banana and pineapple. Also, to enhance the banana flavor I processed the. It's a tender, flavorful cake brimming with fresh pineapple, bananas, pecans, and spices and finished with luscious cream cheese frosting and coconut! You can have hummingbird cake using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of hummingbird cake

Prepare 3 cup of all purpose flour.
You need 2 cup of sugar.
Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.
Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
It's 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
Prepare 8 oz of can sliced pineapples, sliced thin.
Prepare 2 cup of chopped ripe bananas.
Prepare 8 oz of can sliced pineapples, drain & slice very thin.
You need 1 cup of chopped pecans.
Prepare 1 of cream cheese icing.
You need 1/2 cup of chopped pecans.
You need 1 cup of veg oil.
It's 3 large of eggs, beaten.
Prepare 2 cup of chopped ripe bananas.
Prepare 8 oz of can sliced pineapples, drained & sliced very thin.
Prepare 1 cup of chopped pecans.
It's 1 of cream cheese icing.
You need 1/2 cup of chopped pecans.

This Hummingbird Cake is moist and flavorful with chopped pecans, crushed pineapple, and mashed bananas. It is frosted with a delicious cream cheese frosting. Looking for a delicious southern cake recipe? This hummingbird cake recipe is moist and sweet, making it the perfect quick cake to celebrate any occasion!

hummingbird cake instructions

preheat oven at 350°.
in large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and ground cinnamon. mix together..
after mixing your dry ingredients together add vanilla extract, veg oil, and beaten eggs. mix together until dry ingredients are moist..
then, add your bananas, sliced pineapple, and chopped pecans. mix together thoroughly. do NOT use beaters..
place mix in an 9 inch round cake pan. I end up using two, but you can use up to 3..
place in the preheated oven for 25-30 mins or until top is golden brown and cake mix is cooked through. you can check by placing toothpick in the center of the cake, the toothpick will come out clean..
once its done take it out of the oven and place somewhere for it to cool..
after giving your cake time to cool. remove each cake from pan one by one placing cream cheese icing evenly on each layer. I make my own cream cheese icing by using 1-8oz box of cream cheese. 2-3 cups of powder sugar, and 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract. mix together with beaters on med speed..
last, you use the 1/2 cup chopped pecans for topping the cake..

Divide the cake batter between the prepared cake pans. Hummingbird cake -— also variously called banana-pineapple cake, doctor bird cake, Doctor Byrd cake, bird of paradise cake, bumblebee cake, doesn't last cake, Jamaican cake, never ending cake. Hummingbird cake tastes like it could be the love child of banana bread and pineapple upside-down cake. In this Southern classic, bananas and crushed pineapple moisten a spiced cake sweetened. This Hummingbird Cake Recipe does not contain any hummingbirds, we promise!