Recipe: Yummy Hummingbird Cake

Hummingbird Cake. A maaaaajor major delicious cake flavor that I've never really paid attention to. A Southern gem, our classic Hummingbird Cake Recipe boasts three incredibly moist layers flavored with canned pineapple and bananas. Hummingbird Cake is a Southern classic!

Hummingbird cake is a banana-pineapple spice cake common in the Southern United States. Ingredients include flour, sugar, salt, vegetable oil, ripe banana, pineapple, cinnamon, pecans. This Hummingbird Cake is moist and flavorful with chopped pecans, crushed pineapple, and mashed bananas. You can have Hummingbird Cake using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Hummingbird Cake

1. It's 3 cup of flour.
2. You need 1 1/2 cup of white sugar.
3. Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.
4. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
5. It's 1 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
6. Prepare 3 of eggs.
7. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
8. It's 1 1/2 cup of oil, Canola.
9. Prepare 1 can of 8oz. crushed pineapple, undrained.
10. It's 2 cup of bananas, mashed about 3 large.
11. You need 1 1/2 cup of pecans, chopped.
12. Prepare 1 packages of 8oz. cream cheese, softened.
13. It's 1 stick of butter.
14. It's 2 cup of confectionery sugar.
15. You need 1 tsp of vanilla.

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Hummingbird Cake step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350..
2. Whisk together all dry ingredients..
3. Add the next 6 ingredients with a spoon until all are wet..
4. Spray 9x13 inch pan..
5. Add batter and bake for 30 to 35 minutes until cake is done in center..
6. Frost with cream cheese frosting..
7. Whip together cream cheese, butter, sugar, and vanilla until smooth..

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 is an easy, sweet taste of the tropics with banana, pineapple, toasted pecans, and the best cream cheese frosting! Make this recipe for dessert today! 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.