Hummingbird Cake

Hummingbird Cake: a normal southern recipe made with pineapple, banana, cinnamon, and nuts, all topped with a tangy cream cheese frosting!

*This put up in the starting build printed on February 28, 2014. I believed it modified into about time the pics and recipe were up so a ways. So, the photos you plot here now are contemporary and improved! I’ve also improved the recipe and added extra solutions to a couple most continuously asked questions. Expectantly you’ll earn pleasure from this hummingbird cake as fundamental as my family and I attain.*

It’s correct Friday! Are you able to concentrate on it??

I’m so totally pleased it’s eventually spring. After this weekend I’m able to interrupt out the white jeans. Holla!

And truly this cake would be welcome at any time of yr. It’s a agreeable traditional and there is basically no occasion that wouldn’t be made out of the ordinary with this stunner of a hummingbird cake on the menu.

WHAT IS HUMMINGBIRD CAKE?

Hummingbird cake is a southern tradition. Take care of so many diversified savory baked items (mediate biscuits, peach cobbler, corn bread, pecan pie…) this recipe received its open down south.

It’s a straightforward layer cake, flavored with banana, pineapple, and cinnamon, crammed and frosted with a tangy cream cheese icing, and garnished with pecans.

The cake is ridiculously moist and tropical-tasting, and the mix of flavors is glorious out of this world. My entire home smelled improbable while this cake modified into baking! You’ve gotta give it a try!

HOW TO MAKE HUMMINGBIRD CAKE

Unbiased correct take care of with so many of my truffles, this recipe uses the reverse creaming system.

Originate by combining the total dry ingredients in a mountainous bowl. Flour, sugar, leavening, cinnamon, and salt glorious earn stirred together.

Work in the at ease butter till the combination resembles damp sand.

Then, mix in the eggs. It’s crucial that the eggs shuffle in a single at a time, to abet a ways from a lumpy batter. Allow the first one to change into totally integrated, sooner than along side in the next.

Now it’s time so to add the liquid ingredients. Puree the bananas till they’re truly soft. I take care of to use my mini chopper for this.

You are also going to comprise to empty your pineapple truly neatly! It’s handiest to construct in in a strainer and truly squeeze out as fundamental of the liquid as that you just can perchance.

Add the pureed banana and drained, overwhelmed pineapple to the cake batter, along with a little bitter cream and a splash of vanilla extract.

Mix this batter for approximately a minute, then switch it to greased, parchment-lined cake pans and bake!

CAN HUMMINGBIRD CAKE BE MADE IN DIFFERENT SIZED PANS?

To me, a gargantuan, triple layer cake is glorious such an announcement, so I baked this cake in 3 6-go spherical pans.

But it might perhaps perchance even be made in 2 8- or 9-go diameter pans, or in a rectangular 9×13-go pan. Unbiased correct abet an seek on the bake times. Better, thinner truffles might perhaps perchance wish form of time in the oven, relying. You’ll know your cake is executed when a toothpick inserted in the thickest share comes out neatly-organized.

WHAT KIND OF FILLING OR FROSTING TO PUT ON HUMMINGBIRD CAKE

Traditionally, hummingbird cake is made with cream cheese frosting. It’s so correct! It compliments the fruit and spices in this kind of top seemingly diagram.

Build that recipe for no-fail, fluffy as will seemingly be cream cheese frosting that’s stiff sufficient to pipe: Cream Cheese Frosting. It’s what I worn in the photos you plot here!

In case you’re buying for one more chance, try this one: Magical Cream Cheese Frosting. It’s generally a hybrid of aged cream cheese frosting and ermine frosting, infrequently identified as boiled milk frosting or flour frosting. It’s tremendous-soft and silky, and worthwhile for making ahead.

Or when you are anti-cream cheese, that you just can perchance also try my favorite, Swiss meringue buttercream, or this easy American-kind buttercream.

HOW TO DECORATE HUMMINGBIRD CAKE

As soon as the cake is crammed and frosted, that you just can perchance give it a straightforward but pleasing decoration.

Press finely chopped pecans into the perimeters of the cake. I selected to most attractive shuffle barely much less than midway up, but that you just can perchance attain it on the other hand you take care of!

Then, glorious web page a few dried pineapple plants on top, for garnish.

To manufacture dried pineapple plants, peel a contemporary pineapple, and in the discount of it crosswise into very skinny rounds (the thinner the higher!). Build of abode them on a wire rack, and dry them in the oven. (At 170 levels F, this might occasionally perhaps choose around 3 to 4 hours.) As soon as they are dry but aloof warm, they must be pliable sufficient to form. Press them gently correct into a itsy-bitsy cup to earn the blossom form, and enable to chill totally.

HOW LONG DOES HUMMINGBIRD CAKE LAST?

This cake will abet at room temperature for as a minimum a day or two.

In the fridge, this might perhaps fair absorb correct for per week to 10 days. Unbiased correct press a fragment of plastic wrap into the in the discount of aspect of the cake, so it doesn’t dry out.

The unfrosted cake layers will seemingly be wrapped tightly in plastic wrap and frozen. They’ll last in the freezer for a few months.

CAN HUMMINGBIRD CAKE BE MADE AHEAD?

Which it is seemingly you’ll perchance perhaps positively fabricate this dessert ahead- truly I could perhaps suggest it!

The layers will seemingly be baked the day sooner than you plot to assemble the cake. Allow them to chill to room temperature, then wrap them tightly in plastic and refrigerate them in a single day.

I also take care of to absorb and frost the cake ahead, and give it some time in the fridge to loosen up sooner than lowering in. In my ride, the outcomes are consistently so considerably better even as you enable layer truffles to loosen up for some time sooner than serving. They’re easier to frost, and so that they chop so fundamental extra cleanly this vogue.

Hope you’ve got an dependable holiday weekend, and I truly hope this hummingbird cake is a share of that! Let me know when you’ve got a raffle to bake it up; I comprise to listen to all about it!

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