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 have Hummingbird Cake using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Hummingbird Cake
- It’s 3 cup of all purpose flour.
- You need 1 tsp of baking soda.
- Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
- You need 2 cup of sugar.
- Prepare 1 tsp of cinnamon.
- Prepare 3 large of eggs.
- Prepare 1 cup of vegetable oil.
- You need 1 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- Prepare 8 oz of crushed pineapple with liquid.
- You need 1 cup of chopped pecans.
- It’s 2 cup of mashed bananas.
- It’s 1/2 cup of soft butter.
- You need 8 oz of cream cheese.
- Prepare 16 oz of package powdered 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 instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Grease and flour 3 9inch round cake pans.
- Mix flour, soda, salt, sugar, cinnamon in a large bowl. Add eggs and oil and stir only enough to moisten dry ingredients DO NOT BEAT! Stir in vanilla, pineapple, pecans and bananas. Divide batter among pans and bake 23 to 28 min or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean..
- Cool cakes in pans on wire racks 10 mins. loosen around edges and turn out on racks. Cool completely before frosting..
- Cream together Softened butter and crean cheese, softened, until fluffy. Add powdered sugar and beat again until fluffy. Mix in vanilla. Frost cake..
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?
