hummingbird cake. Jamie's hummingbird cake recipe is simply delicious; packed with banana, pineapple and topped with zesty cream cheese and a crunchy pecan brittle. This Hummingbird Cake is moist and flavorful with chopped pecans, crushed pineapple, and mashed bananas. It is frosted with a delicious cream cheese frosting.

hummingbird cake Hummingbird Cake is a Southern classic! It's a spiced pineapple-banana cake topped with cream cheese frosting and pecans. The ultimate recipe for Hummingbird Cake. You can have hummingbird cake using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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Ingredients of hummingbird cake

  1. It's 3 cup of all purpose flour.
  2. Prepare 2 cup of sugar.
  3. Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.
  4. It's 1 tsp of salt.
  5. You need 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
  6. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
  7. It's 8 oz of can sliced pineapples, sliced thin.
  8. It's 2 cup of chopped ripe bananas.
  9. It's 8 oz of can sliced pineapples, drain & slice very thin.
  10. It's 1 cup of chopped pecans.
  11. It's 1 of cream cheese icing.
  12. You need 1/2 cup of chopped pecans.
  13. It's 1 cup of veg oil.
  14. Prepare 3 large of eggs, beaten.
  15. You need 2 cup of chopped ripe bananas.
  16. It's 8 oz of can sliced pineapples, drained & sliced very thin.
  17. You need 1 cup of chopped pecans.
  18. It's 1 of cream cheese icing.
  19. Prepare 1/2 cup of chopped pecans.

It's the most requested recipe in Southern Living magazine history and frequents covered dish dinners all. Hummingbird Cake is a classic southern cake made with bananas, pineapple, and pecans and a cream cheese frosting. It is a very dense, sweet, and moist cake. Hummingbird Cake is a 'WOW' cake that never disappoints.

hummingbird cake instructions

  1. preheat oven at 350°.
  2. in large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and ground cinnamon. mix together..
  3. after mixing your dry ingredients together add vanilla extract, veg oil, and beaten eggs. mix together until dry ingredients are moist..
  4. then, add your bananas, sliced pineapple, and chopped pecans. mix together thoroughly. do NOT use beaters..
  5. place mix in an 9 inch round cake pan. I end up using two, but you can use up to 3..
  6. place in the preheated oven for 25-30 mins or until top is golden brown and cake mix is cooked through. you can check by placing toothpick in the center of the cake, the toothpick will come out clean..
  7. once its done take it out of the oven and place somewhere for it to cool..
  8. after giving your cake time to cool. remove each cake from pan one by one placing cream cheese icing evenly on each layer. I make my own cream cheese icing by using 1-8oz box of cream cheese. 2-3 cups of powder sugar, and 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract. mix together with beaters on med speed..
  9. last, you use the 1/2 cup chopped pecans for topping the cake..

Think Carrot Cake meets Banana If you never thought you could fall in love with a cake, I feel sure Hummingbird Cake will take you there! Fun fact: Hummingbird cake is actually from Jamaica! It was originally called "Doctor Bird Cake," which is a nickname for a type of Jamaican hummingbird. People say the cake earned its name. This impressive hummingbird cake is my dad's favorite, so I always make it for his birthday.