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Recipe

Description
If you have never tasted a Hummingbird cake, you are really missing out. It is common in the Southern United States, and is traditionally a combination of banana and pineapple spice cake. The frosting is a cream cheese frosting with butter, powdered sugar
Ingredients
- Hummingbird Cake:
- 3 c. flour
- 2 t. ground cinnamon
- 1 t. baking soda
- 1 t.salt
- 1 c. granulated sugar
- 1 c. packed light brown sugar
- 3 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 c. vegetable oil
- 2 t. vanilla extract
- 1 c. fresh pineapple, crushed (see directions below)
- 2 c. roasted bananas*, mashed (about 4 large or 6 medium-small bananas- peel left on; directions below)
- 1 c. chopped pecans
- Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 1 ½ sticks unsalted butter, chilled
- 3-8 oz. packages of cream cheese, chilled
- 1 t. vanilla
- 1 ½ c. powdered sugar, sifted
- 1 ½ c. finely chopped pecans
Steps
- Hummingbird Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- *Place bananas on a cookie sheet with peels left on; bake 12 minutes until skins are black (it's fine if bananas leak). Remove; cool until they can be handled. Peel bananas; place in a small mixing bowl; mash. Set aside. Keep oven heated to 350 degrees.
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