Hummingbird Poke Cake. Hummingbird Cake, with its moist texture and flavoring from pecans, pineapple, and banana, is one of my favorite southern cakes. Usually I make a traditional-style Hummingbird Layer Cake with Cream Cheese Icing, but I was in the mood to make a poke cake, Hummingbird style. Hummingbird Cake is traditionally a spice cake with pineapple, banana and pecans topped with cream cheese frosting.

It is said that the reason this cake is called Hummingbird is because when your guests take their first bite you will hear a soft hummmm as a result of just how incredible this cake tastes. How to Make HUMMINGBIRD POKE CAKE. Using an electric mixer, beat together cake mix, banana, crushed pineapple, oil, water, eggs and cinnamon until smooth. You can cook Hummingbird Poke Cake using 25 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Hummingbird Poke Cake

You need of Cake:.
It's 3 cups of flour.
It's 1 cup of white granulated sugar.
You need 3/4 cup of brown sugar.
You need 1 tsp of baking soda.
You need 2 tsp of cinnamon.
You need 1 1/4 cup of vegetable oil.
You need 3 of eggs.
You need 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
It's 4 of medium ripe bananas.
Prepare 225 g of crushed pineapple with juice.
You need 100 g of chopped walnuts.
It's of Sweet Sauce:.
You need 1 can of condensed milk.
You need 1 cup of crushed pineapples juice squeezed out.
Prepare 1 tsp of cinnamon.
It's 1/2 cup of Orley Whip.
It's 2 tubs of cream cheese softened.
It's of Frosting:.
You need 1/2 cup of unsalted butter softened.
Prepare 1 cup of icing sugar.
You need 1 tsp of vanilla essence.
You need 1 tsp of cinnamon.
Prepare 50 g of finely chopped walnuts.
Prepare 50 g of chopped pecans for topping of the cake.

Wiggins of Greensboro, North Carolina, we had no idea the cake would become our most popular and beloved Southern cake recipe ever. Without a doubt, the cake is a beauty with its three moist layers topped with cream cheese frosting and pecans; but it's the taste that really keeps us coming back. We gathered our best Hummingbird Cake recipes, all of which put a special spin on the sweet pineapple-banana-cream cheese combination. Hummingbird cake started life as a spice cake with banana and pineapple.

Hummingbird Poke Cake step by step

Preheat the oven to 180C and grease a 9x13 casserole dish..
Combine flour, white and brown sugars, baking soda, walnuts, and cinnamon in a large mixing bowl..
In a separate bowl, whisk together oil, eggs, vanilla essance, crushed pineapple and mashed bananas. Whisk until all combined..
Pour wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix until smooth..
Pour cake batter into the prepared dish and spread it evenly. Bake for 40 minutes..
While the cake is baking, make the sweet sauce. In a mixing bowl, whisk together condensed milk, pineapple, cinnamon and Orley Whip..
Let the cake cool for about 10 minutes. Poke holes (pencil thickness) all over the cake..
Evenly, pour sweet sauce all over the cake. Let it seep in and cool completely before frosting..
To make the frosting, beat together the butter and cream cheese and then the icing sugar, cinnamon and vanilla essence until the frosting is light, smooth and fluffy..
Once the cake is cooled, evenly frost the cake all over and add the chopped walnuts all over the top of the frosted cake..

Also, to enhance the banana flavor I processed the bananas in a blender. For some reason this releases more banana flavor into the cake. This is a moist and rich treat! The name was borrowed from the hummingbird symbol of Air Jamaica Airlines and the recipe was by Mrs. Whenever it was, they enjoyed a time of popularity for several years and helped increase the sales of gelatin and instant pudding mixes.