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Hummingbird Cake (Classic)

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Hummingbird Cake (Classic)

A classic American Southern layer cake with banana, pineapple and cream cheese frosting. Folding the fruit through gently rather than beating it in keeps small pieces of banana and pineapple intact in the finished crumb.

Total time
60 min
Prep
20 min
Cook
40 min
Difficulty
medium
Cuisine
American
vegetarian

Ingredients

3 cupsplain flour
2 cupscaster sugar
1 tspbicarbonate of soda
1 tspcinnamon
1/2 tspsalt
3eggs
1 cupvegetable oil
1 tspvanilla extract
1 tin (440g)crushed pineapple with juice
2ripe bananas, mashed
1 cupwalnuts or pecans, chopped
250gcream cheese for frosting
125gbutter for frosting
4 cupsicing sugar for frosting
1 tspvanilla for frosting

Instructions

1

Mix flour, sugar, bicarb, cinnamon and salt.

2

Beat eggs and oil. Add vanilla, pineapple, banana and nuts.

3

Fold into dry ingredients.

4

Divide between 2 greased 23cm round tins. Bake at 180°C for 35-40 minutes.

5

Cool. Make cream cheese frosting. Layer and frost.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories
1324
Protein
15.1g
Fat
59.1g
Carbs
186.7g
Fiber
4.4g
Sodium
633mg

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