Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. This hummingbird cake is always a hit with families or for any celebration. It's a moist cake flavored with cinnamon, pineapple, pecans, and bananas and topped with a cream cheese frosting. This Southern layer cake features a crowd-pleasing combination of banana, pineapple, and coconut.

Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting Hands down this Hummingbird Cake is my favorite. Butter, cream cheese, vanilla and sugar combine to make the most amazing frosting that pairs perfectly with the exotic flavours of the Hummingbird Cake. The final touch for my Hummingbird Cake is a sprinkling of pecan cookie crumbs. You can have Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

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Ingredients of Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

  1. It's 3 cups of all-purpose flour.
  2. It's 1 tsp of baking soda.
  3. It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
  4. It's 2 cups of sugar.
  5. Prepare 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
  6. Prepare 3 of eggs, beaten.
  7. You need 3/4 cup of vegetable oil.
  8. You need 1 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
  9. It's 8 oz of canned crushed pineapple, undrained.
  10. Prepare 1 cup of chopped pecans.
  11. Prepare 1 3/4 cup of mashed bananas.
  12. It's 1/2 cup of chopped pecans.
  13. It's 1/2 cup of butter or margarine, softened.
  14. It's 8 oz of cream cheese, softened.
  15. Prepare 16 oz of powdered sugar.
  16. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.

I think of this cake as banana cake meets the tropics, in that it is loaded with bananas, laced with fresh pineapple and covered in sweet, toasted coconut. It will remind you a lot of banana bread, but with a bonus of decadent cream cheese frosting of course. Cream cheese frosting is a great way to top your cakes or cupcakes - and it doesn't get any better than this delicious and easy cream cheese icing recipe by Hummingbird Bakery. We bet everyone will ask for seconds!

Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting instructions

  1. Combine first 5 ingredients in large bowl. Add eggs & oil. Stir until dry ingredients are moistened. Do not beat. Stir in vanilla, pineapple, 1 cup pecans, & bananas..
  2. Pour into greased 13x9 pan. Bake in 350 degrees oven for 38 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Can put in 3 greased & floured 9 inch cake pans, but only bake for 23-28 minutes..
  3. Let cool completely before frosting..
  4. For frosting: cream butter & cream cheese together. Gradually add powdered sugar. Beat until light & fluffy. Stir in vanilla. Spread over top of cake. If doing layers, spread between layers, up sides, & over top..
  5. Sprinkle top with 1/2 cup chopped pecans..

The best part of this simple cream cheese frosting is that you only need three. A classic two layer banana, pineapple and pecan hummingbird cake with delicious cream cheese frosting - the perfect afternoon tea treat. Hummingbird cake is up there as one of my all-time favourite cake recipes. Aka, the Hummingbird Bread of your dreams. I mean, who wouldn't be a fan?!