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. 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. You can have Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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Ingredients of Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

  1. It's 3 cups of all-purpose flour.
  2. You need 1 tsp of baking soda.
  3. Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
  4. Prepare 2 cups of sugar.
  5. You need 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. It's 1 cup of chopped pecans.
  11. It's 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. Prepare 8 oz of cream cheese, softened.
  15. It's 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. 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. Aka, the Hummingbird Bread of your dreams.

Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting step by step

  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..

I mean, who wouldn't be a fan?! Don't hold back on the homemade cream cheese frosting. 😍 It might just be my favorite thing about this whole quick bread recipe. I'll pretty much eat anything if it comes with cream cheese. I thought it was about time the pics and recipe were updated. Cashew cream cheese frosting is a healthier, lighter alternative to the classic cream cheese frosting that usually comes with a hummingbird cake.