Humming cake. 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. For some reason this releases more banana flavor into the cake.
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.
This impressive hummingbird cake is my dad's favorite, so I always make it for his birthday.
It makes a memorable dessert for any celebration and is lovely with a summer meal. —Nancy Zimmerman, Cape May Court House, New Jersey The ultimate recipe for Hummingbird Cake.
You can cook Humming cake using 17 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Humming cake
- Prepare of finely chopped pineapple.
- Prepare of all purpose flour.
- You need of baking soda.
- Prepare of ground cinnamon.
- Prepare of ground nutmeg.
- You need of salt.
- Prepare of granulated sugar.
- You need of brown sugar.
- You need of large eggs.
- You need of vegetable oil.
- You need of vanilla extract.
- It's of mashed overripe bananas.
- It's of pecans.
- Prepare of creame cheese.
- It's of unsalted butter.
- Prepare of powdered sugar.
- Prepare of sweetened shredded coconut.
It's the most requested recipe in Southern Living magazine history and frequents covered dish dinners all This gorgeous and classic cake is all thanks to Mrs. Wiggins of Greensboro, North Carolina, who allowed this pineapple-banana spice cake with cream cheese frosting to become one of our most. Fun fact: Hummingbird cake is actually from Jamaica! It was originally called "Doctor Bird Cake," which is a nickname for a type of Jamaican hummingbird.
Humming cake instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter two 9 inch round cake pans and line bottom with a round of parchment paper. Butter parchment paper and lightly dust pans with flour, shake out excess..
- In a mixing bowl, stir together finely chopped pineapple with 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, set aside..
- In a medium mixing bowl whisk together remaining 21/4 cups flour, the baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt..
- In a separate large mixing bowl, using an electric hand mixer set on medium- high speed, whip together granulated sugar brown sugar and eggs until pale and fluffy..
- Slowly blend in vegetable oil and add vanilla extract. Add half of the flour mixture and using a rubber spatula, fold just until combined. Add mashed bananas and fold to combine, then add remaining flour mixture and fold until combined. Fold in pineapple mixture and chopped pecans..
- Divide batter evenly among prepared cake pans. Bake in preheated oven until toothpick inserted into centers of cake comes out clean..
- Remove from oven and allow to cool in cake pans 10 mins, then run a knife around edge to loosen and invert onto wire racks to cool completely..
- Frost with cream cheese frosting and and gently press coconut onto sides. If desired decorate top with a ring of whole or chopped pecans near outside edge..
- For the cream cheese frosting: In the mixing bowl using an electric hand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, whip together cream cheese and butter until smooth and fluffy..
- Add powdered sugar and vanilla and blend again until shade becomes whiter and frosting is fluffy.To firm up the frosting a bit freeze in 3 mins increments mixing between increments until it is reached a slightly stiffer consistency..
- Now it is ready to serve..
People say the cake earned its name. Spread pecans onto a lined baking pan. Line the bottoms of the pans with parchment paper. Butter paper, and dust the pans with flour, tapping out any excess.. This classic Southern Hummingbird Cake recipe is the perfect easy dessert, tea time snack, or sweet breakfast treat!