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

Because Hummingbird Cake is topped with a Cream Cheese Frosting it needs to be stored in the refrigerator, as well as any other cake that has cream cheese frosting on it. Hands down this Hummingbird Cake is my favorite. 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.

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..

Hummingbird Cake is a Southern classic! It's a spiced pineapple-banana cake topped with cream cheese frosting and pecans. Serve it for Easter or any family gathering. I thought it was about time the pics and recipe were updated. Aka, the Hummingbird Bread of your dreams.