Recipe: Tasty Hummingbird Cake

Hummingbird Cake. Come See our Unique Cake Gifts! Check out our new Mini Cake Explosion Boxes and Mini Cake Variety Packs Hummingbird cake started life as a spice cake with banana and pineapple. Also, to enhance the banana flavor I processed the bananas in a blender.

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. In a large bowl, beat the bananas, oil, eggs, pineapple and vanilla until well blended. You can cook Hummingbird Cake using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Hummingbird Cake

1. Prepare of Dry ingredients:.
2. Prepare of flour.
3. You need of sugar.
4. It's of baking soda.
5. You need of salt.
6. It's of ground cinnamon.
7. You need of pecans, chopped.
8. Prepare of Wet ingredients:.
9. It's of mashed ripe banana.
10. Prepare of Chopped pineapple.
11. Prepare of eggs, beaten.
12. You need of vanilla extract (optional).
13. It's of vegetable oil.
14. Prepare of Frosting:.
15. It's of butter, room temperature.
16. Prepare of full fat cream cheese.
17. Prepare of powder sugar.
18. You need of pecans, chopped.

In another bowl, combine the flour, sugar, salt, baking soda and cinnamon; gradually beat into banana mixture until blended. In a large bowl, whisk flour with baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Line the bottoms of the pans with parchment paper. Butter paper, and dust the pans with flour, tapping out any excess..

Hummingbird Cake step by step

1. Preheat the oven to 180 deg Celcius.
2. Combine all together the dry ingredients in one bowl. In the other bowl, combine all the wet ingredients..
3. Pour the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, mix it well but don't over mixed it..
4. Pour the batter into the baking pan, and bake for 30-35 minutes..
5. To make the frosting, beat the room temperature butter for about 3 minutes and add the cold cream cheese. Beat it for another 3-5 minutes. Add the powder sugar and pecans, mix it until it well incorporated. Put it in the fridge until it ready to use..
6. After the cake done, wait until it cool completely before adding the frosting..

My Hummingbird Cake Recipe is an amazingly soft, Southern classic cake recipe loaded with banana, pineapple and topped with cream cheese frosting. Proceed with caution if you are trying to lose weight, watch your figure, or don't plan on eating half a cake in the next day. Today, I am adding freshly shaved carrots, coconut, and raisins to the recipe for a variation that my grandmother passed down to me. I am using the frosting recipe for two different cakes today, one being the hummingbird and the other for a red velvet cake. Spread pecans onto a lined baking pan.