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 cook Hummingbird Cake using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Hummingbird Cake

1. You need 3 cup of all purpose flour.
2. You need 1 tsp of baking soda.
3. It's 1 tsp of salt.
4. Prepare 2 cup of sugar.
5. You need 1 tsp of cinnamon.
6. Prepare 3 large of eggs.
7. It's 1 cup of vegetable oil.
8. You need 1 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
9. You need 8 oz of crushed pineapple with liquid.
10. Prepare 1 cup of chopped pecans.
11. You need 2 cup of mashed bananas.
12. You need 1/2 cup of soft butter.
13. It's 8 oz of cream cheese.
14. Prepare 16 oz of package powdered sugar.
15. It's 1 tsp of vanilla.

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Hummingbird Cake step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Grease and flour 3 9inch round cake pans.
3. 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..
4. Cool cakes in pans on wire racks 10 mins. loosen around edges and turn out on racks. Cool completely before frosting..
5. Cream together Softened butter and crean cheese, softened, until fluffy. Add powdered sugar and beat again until fluffy. Mix in vanilla. Frost cake..

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.