Hummingbird Cake. Hummingbird Cake is a Southern classic! It's a spiced pineapple-banana cake topped with cream cheese frosting and pecans. A Southern gem, our classic Hummingbird Cake Recipe boasts three incredibly moist layers flavored with canned pineapple and bananas.
It's the most requested recipe in Southern Living magazine history and frequents covered dish dinners all. It's a tender, flavorful cake brimming with fresh pineapple, bananas, pecans, and spices and finished with luscious cream cheese frosting and coconut! 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. You can cook Hummingbird Cake using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Hummingbird Cake
- You need 3 cup of flour.
- It’s 1 1/2 cup of white sugar.
- You need 1 tsp of baking soda.
- It’s 1 tsp of salt.
- It’s 1 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
- You need 3 of eggs.
- It’s 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- You need 1 1/2 cup of oil, Canola.
- You need 1 can of 8oz. crushed pineapple, undrained.
- It’s 2 cup of bananas, mashed about 3 large.
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup of pecans, chopped.
- Prepare 1 packages of 8oz. cream cheese, softened.
- You need 1 stick of butter.
- It’s 2 cup of confectionery sugar.
- Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla.
This Hummingbird Cake is moist and flavorful with chopped pecans, crushed pineapple, and mashed bananas. It is frosted with a delicious cream cheese frosting. Hummingbird cake started life as a spice cake with banana and pineapple. Also, to enhance the banana flavor I processed the.
Hummingbird Cake step by step
- Preheat oven to 350..
- Whisk together all dry ingredients..
- Add the next 6 ingredients with a spoon until all are wet..
- Spray 9×13 inch pan..
- Add batter and bake for 30 to 35 minutes until cake is done in center..
- Frost with cream cheese frosting..
- Whip together cream cheese, butter, sugar, and vanilla until smooth..
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. Hummingbird Cake is a classic southern cake made with bananas, pineapple, and pecans and a cream cheese frosting. It is a very dense, sweet, and moist cake. Have you ever heard of Hummingbird Cake?
