Easiest Way to Prepare Appetizing Hummingbird Poke Cake

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. I had never eaten a Hummingbird Poke Cake before, but I thought it would be a fun and unique dessert.

Soft, moist, super easy hummingbird cake that makes a beautiful spring and summer dessert. This version of a Hummingbird cake is so easy, it's made into a poke cake and made extra moist from a layer of sweet, creamy sauce. Hummingbird Cake is traditionally a spice cake with pineapple, banana and pecans topped with cream cheese frosting. You can have Hummingbird Poke Cake using 25 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Hummingbird Poke Cake

1. Prepare of Cake:.
2. It's of flour.
3. Prepare of white granulated sugar.
4. You need of brown sugar.
5. It's of baking soda.
6. Prepare of cinnamon.
7. You need of vegetable oil.
8. Prepare of eggs.
9. Prepare of vanilla extract.
10. You need of medium ripe bananas.
11. Prepare of crushed pineapple with juice.
12. It's of chopped walnuts.
13. It's of Sweet Sauce:.
14. You need of condensed milk.
15. You need of crushed pineapples juice squeezed out.
16. It's of cinnamon.
17. You need of Orley Whip.
18. It's of cream cheese softened.
19. Prepare of Frosting:.
20. It's of unsalted butter softened.
21. You need of icing sugar.
22. Prepare of vanilla essence.
23. Prepare of cinnamon.
24. Prepare of finely chopped walnuts.
25. Prepare of chopped pecans for topping of the cake.

To toast pecans, sprinkle in ungreased heavy skillet. Using an electric mixer, beat together cake mix, banana, crushed pineapple, oil, water, eggs and cinnamon until smooth. Hummingbird Poke Cake - CUCINA DE YUNG. Hummingbird cake started life as a spice cake with banana and pineapple.

Hummingbird Poke Cake instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 180C and grease a 9x13 casserole dish..
2. Combine flour, white and brown sugars, baking soda, walnuts, and cinnamon in a large mixing bowl..
3. In a separate bowl, whisk together oil, eggs, vanilla essance, crushed pineapple and mashed bananas. Whisk until all combined..
4. Pour wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix until smooth..
5. Pour cake batter into the prepared dish and spread it evenly. Bake for 40 minutes..
6. While the cake is baking, make the sweet sauce. In a mixing bowl, whisk together condensed milk, pineapple, cinnamon and Orley Whip..
7. Let the cake cool for about 10 minutes. Poke holes (pencil thickness) all over the cake..
8. Evenly, pour sweet sauce all over the cake. Let it seep in and cool completely before frosting..
9. 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..
10. 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! 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.