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

1. Hummingbird Cake:
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
3. *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.