Hummingbird Cake (Classic)

Name: Hummingbird Cake (Classic)
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 cups plain flour; 2 cups caster sugar; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 1 tsp cinnamon; 1/2 tsp salt; 3 eggs; 1 cup vegetable oil; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1 tin (440g) crushed pineapple with juice; 2 ripe bananas, mashed; 1 cup walnuts or pecans, chopped; 250g cream cheese for frosting; 125g butter for frosting; 4 cups icing sugar for frosting; 1 tsp vanilla for frosting

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

Mix flour, sugar, bicarb, cinnamon and salt.

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

Fold into dry ingredients.

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

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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