Easiest Way to Prepare Appetizing Hummingbird Cake

Hummingbird Cake. 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. Hummingbird cake started life as a spice cake with banana and pineapple.

This is a moist and rich treat! In a large bowl, beat the butter, granulated sugar and vanilla at medium speed with a mixer until fluffy. In a large bowl, whisk flour with baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. You can cook Hummingbird Cake using 17 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Hummingbird Cake

1. You need of Cake.
2. You need 3 cup of all-purpose flour.
3. Prepare 2 cup of sugar.
4. It's 1 tsp of salt.
5. You need 1 tsp of baking soda.
6. It's 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
7. You need 3 of eggs, beaten.
8. Prepare 1 cup of vegetable oil.
9. You need 1 1/2 tsp of vanilla.
10. Prepare 1 can of (8 oz.) crushed pineapple, undrained.
11. Prepare 2 cup of chopped bananas (about 4).
12. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of chopped pecans.
13. You need of Cream Cheese Frosting.
14. You need 1 packages of (8 oz. ) cream cheese, softened.
15. You need 1/2 cup of (1 stick) butter.
16. It's 1 box of (16 oz.) confectioner's sugar, sifted.
17. You need 1 tsp of vanilla.

In a large bowl, beat the bananas, oil, eggs, pineapple and vanilla until well blended. In another bowl, combine the flour, sugar, salt, baking soda and cinnamon; gradually beat into banana mixture until blended. Top with third cake layer, and spread top and sides of cake with remaining frosting. Arrange toasted pecan halves in a circular pattern over top of cake.

Hummingbird Cake step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350°F..
2. Combine flour, sugar, salt, baking soda and cinnamon in large bowl. Add eggs and oil, stirring until moistened. Stir in vanilla, pineapple, bananas, and 1 cup of the pecans. Spoon into three greased and floured 9-inch baking pans..
3. Bake 25 minutes or until done in the center. Cool in pan for 10 minutes. Remove to wire racks to finish cooling..
4. While cake is cooling, prepare frosting. Using an electric mixer at medium speed, beat cheese and butter until smooth. Gradually add sugar and beat at low speed until light and fluffy. Stir in vanilla. Spread frosting between cooled cake layers and on top and sides of cake. Garnish with remaining pecans..

My Hummingbird Cake Recipe is an amazingly soft, Southern classic cake recipe loaded with banana, pineapple and topped with cream cheese frosting. Proceed with caution if you are trying to lose weight, watch your figure, or don't plan on eating half a cake in the next day. Today, I am adding freshly shaved carrots, coconut, and raisins to the recipe for a variation that my grandmother passed down to me. I am using the frosting recipe for two different cakes today, one being the hummingbird and the other for a red velvet cake. Spread pecans onto a lined baking pan.