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This Southern layer cake features a crowd-pleasing combination of banana, pineapple, and coconut. The name's origin remains something of a mystery: Some say. This hummingbird cake is always a hit with families or for any celebration.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hummingbird cake with cream cheese frosting using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting:
- Prepare 3 cups all-purpose flour
- Get 1 tsp baking soda
- Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
- Prepare 2 cups sugar
- Make ready 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- Get 3 eggs, beaten
- Get 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 8 oz canned crushed pineapple, undrained
- Get 1 cup chopped pecans
- Take 1 3/4 cup mashed bananas
- Take 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- Make ready 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
- Prepare 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- Take 16 oz powdered sugar
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
The final touch for my Hummingbird Cake is a sprinkling of pecan cookie crumbs. Aka, the Hummingbird Bread of your dreams. 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 frosting.
Steps to make Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 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.
- 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.
- Let cool completely before frosting.
- 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.
- Sprinkle top with 1/2 cup chopped pecans.
Hummingbird Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting. Our modern twist on the iconic Southern dessert features the same banana-pineapple spice cake flavor in cupcake form instead of towering layer cake. Cover the cake with the cream cheese frosting and decorate with the pineapple slices and toffee pecans. Photography by Petrina Tinslay, styling by David Morgan and art direction by Anne Marie Cummins. 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.
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