Hummingbird Cake Recipe with Step by Step Pictures.
Hummingbird cake is a banana-pineapple spice cake common in the Southern United States Created on the island of Jamaica, hummingbird cake was named after the island's national bird. This cake is also known as doctor bird cake.
Hummingbird cake is nothing but a fruity cake made using bananas, pineapples and pecans. This cake is super moist and very tender with tons of fruits in them. This cake goes well with lightly tart cream cheese frosting rather than super sweet buttercream.
Since this cake has lots of fruits in them. It is best to store it in fridge.
Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.
📖 Recipe
Hummingbird Cake
Ingredients
- Crushed Pineapple - ⅓ cup
- All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 ¾ cup 210 grams
- Baking Soda Cooking Soda - ¾ tsp
- Sugar - 1 cup 200 grams
- Egg - 2
- Vegetable Oil - ⅔ cup 160 ml
- Vanilla Extract - 1 tsp
- Banana - 1 cup mashed
- Pecans -½ cup chopped finely
- Cinnamon powder - ½ tsp
- Milk - ¼ cup 60 ml
- Cream Cheese Frosting as needed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 degree c. Line cake pans with parchment paper and set aside.
- Take eggs, sugar, oil, vanilla in a bowl and mix well.
- Add crushed pineapples, banana, pecans, cinnamon and mix well.
- Add in flour, baking soda and fold gently.
- Add milk and fold gently.
- Divide the batter into two pans and bake for 30 to 35 mins.
- Remove and cool completely.
- You can decorate the cake with any icing as you like. I went with cream cheese frosting.
Pictorial:
1)Take eggs in a bowl
2)Add in sugar
3)Add in vanilla
4)Add oil or melted butter
5)Add in crushed pineapples
6)Add in chopped pecans
7)Add in cinnamon powder
8)Add in chopped bananas
9)Add in all purpose flour
10)Add in baking soda
12)Add in milk
13)Fold gently
14)Line a baking pan with parchment paper
15)Spoon the batter into the pans and pop it into the oven to bake. Once it is baked, remove from oven and cool completely.
16)Mean while i made some cream cheese frosting
17)Take cake and invert it into a plate
18)Spread icing evenly
19)Sandwich with other cake
20)Top with icing
21)Spread evenly
22)Decorate as per your wish. Chill the cake for few hours. Serve.
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