The best Hummingbird Cake! It’sec a tender, flavorful cake brimming alongside fresh pineapple, bananas, pecans, in addition to spices as well as finished amongst luscious cream cheese frosting as well as kokosnoot! The perfect cake for Easter or whatever other exceptional occasion.
Homemade Hummingbird Cake
I mean of this cake equally banana cake meets the torrid zone, inward that it is loaded with bananas, laced with fresh pineapple too covered inward sweetness, toasted coconut.
It volition remind yous a lot of banana staff of life, but amongst a bonus of decadent cream cheese frosting of form. There are and then many delicious flavors in addition to perfect textures inwards this cake.
The cake has a squeamish tender thank you to the saccharide as well as bananas in addition to it has a squeamish moist crumb thank you to the vegetable crude oil, it’sec dotted with juicy bits of pineapple and crunchy toasted pecans, together with it’s finished amongst a creamy, lightly tangy frosting and finished with crisp bits of toasted coconut (or chewy coconut if you like it un-toasted).
It’s an onetime fashioned manner cake that will probable remind you lot of dwelling house. Made from scratch together with certain to please!
Photography credit: Jenn Davis from Two Cups Flour.
What Ingredients get into Hummingbird Cake?
- Fresh pineapple – I honey this cake with fresh Dole pineapple (together with you lot tin can but swallow the leftover) just canned, drained pineapple will work also if you don’t have access to proficient fresh.
- Overripe bananas – don’t use yellowish peel bananas only don’t function dark rotten bananas either, generously speckled bananas volition gustation best.
- All-function flour – I role the scoop in addition to grade method when mensuration out the flour, for well-nigh consistent results use a kitchen scale to measure ingredients similar flour.
- Baking soda – added then the cake volition ascension
- Eggs – these binds the ingredients inwards the cake too helps the cake ascension.
- Cinnamon too nutmeg – these spices brand this cake sing!
- Salt – don’t forget the common salt! Have you lot ever accidentally left this out? The cake will gustatory modality apartment.
- Granulated sugar, brown carbohydrate as well as powdered carbohydrate – that’second a lot of sugars, merely we’re making cake!
- Vegetable crude – canola rock oil volition go merely the same. Oil offers a moister cake than butter would.
- Vanilla extract – added to both the cake and frosting for that irresistible background flavor.
- Butter – use unsalted and then the frosting isn’t overly salty.
- Pecans – these are toasted to add together fifty-fifty more than season. Walnuts would work bully besides.
- Cream cheese – stick alongside Philadelphia brand for consistent results.
- Shredded coconut – purpose medium (criterion) shredded kokosnoot. Sweetened or unsweetened will go.
How to Make Hummingbird Cake
- Preheat oven to 350, grease as well as business in addition to flour cake pans.
- Whisk together pineapple alongside ane/4 loving cup flour.
- Whisk remaining flour, baking soda, spices too common salt.
- Whip white as well as dark-brown saccharide alongside eggs until pale as well as fluffy, mix inward fossil oil too vanilla.
- Fold inward half of the flour mixture, and then mashed banana, then remaining flour mixture. Finish by folding in pineapple together with pecans.
- Pour into cake pans, bake until fix, virtually 35 minutes.
- Let cool in pans nigh 10 minutes, and so invert in addition to cool on wire rack.
- Prepare frosting as well as spread over cooled cake. Spread coconut along exterior of cake, decorate elevation with pecans.
Tips for Hummingbird Cake
- Use fresh pineapple for best flavor. It has a lot more season than the canned.
- Use a scale if possible to mensurate ingredients for consistent results.
- Line the cake pans. I don’t recommend but spraying, we’ve all had at to the lowest degree ane experience with a cake or dessert sticking merely parchment paper helps preclude that.
- Don’t over-mix the batter. This is a somewhat dense cake with all the fruits, and so if you were to over-plication the batter it may end upwards besides heavy. Just mix until the streaks are gone.
- Careful not to over-bake. If yous bake longer than needed the cake volition beginning to go dry out. Bake simply until fix inward the middle. The toothpick test works smashing.
Tips for Cream Cheese Frosting
Cream cheese frosting can be fox but here are the things I’ve institute that assist:
- Start amongst ingredients that are almost room temperature. I’ll frequently even cheat together with purpose the microwave merely the point is that the butter should however be cool too especially the cream cheese.
- Chill the frosting. Once the cream cheese frosting is all mixed together popular the mixing bowl in the freezer for a iii – v minutes, render to stand up too mix again. Repeat a few times as needed until you lot’ve reached the consistency y'all desire it.
Can I Bake it in a Bundt Pan?
Yes. It will belike take nigh threescore – 65 minutes at 350 for a Hummingbird bundt cake. Then you lot’ll only ask about 2/iii the total of frosting.
Can I Make the batter into Cupcakes?
Yes. Divide batter amid newspaper lined muffin cups filling each three/iv total, bake at 350 about xviii – 22 minutes.
How Should I Store Hummingbird Cake?
After you’ve frosted the layers continue shop the cake inward the refrigerator and so the frosting won’t melt away. Let residue at room temperature well-nigh 30 minutes before serving.
Can I Freeze Hummingbird Cake?
- The unfrosted cake layers should freeze good for upwardly to ii months, twine inwards foil and shop inwards an airtight container.
- The cream cheese based frosting won’t freeze good then just add frosting afterwards thawing at room temperature.
Can I Substitute Applesauce for Oil?
I haven’t tested in this recipe just inward well-nigh baking recipes I’one thousand able to go away with substitute one-half of the fossil oil amongst unsweetened applesauce successfully.
How Can I Ripen Bananas Faster for Hummingbird Cake?
To ripen bananas faster store them inward a paper handbag in a warm home. Some order adding an apple to the pocketbook will speed the procedure along even faster. I don’t recommend baking the unripe bananas to speed ripening every bit or so advise.
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Recipe originally shared April 2014, photos have been updated.
Hummingbird Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup (198g) finely chopped fresh pineapple*
- ii ane/ii cups (354g) all-function flour, divided (scoop too degree to measure)
- i tsp baking soda
- ane tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/four tsp earth nutmeg
- one/ii tsp common salt
- 3/iv cup (150g) granulated carbohydrate
- 3/iv loving cup (150g) packed low-cal-brownish carbohydrate
- 3 large eggs
- one loving cup (235ml) vegetable oil or canola crude
- ane tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups (366g) mashed overripe bananas
- i loving cup (100g) pecans, toasted as well as finely chopped, summation more whole or chopped pecans for decorating if desired
Frosting and topping
- 12 oz. cream cheese, most at room temperature
- 3/four cup (170g) unsalted butter, well-nigh at room temperature
- 4 cups (480g) powdered carbohydrate
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- i ane/4 cups (95g) sweetened shredded kokosnoot, toasted or untoasted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter 2 ix-inch round cake pans (at least ii-inch tall) too line of work bottoms with a circular of parchment newspaper. Butter parchment paper too lightly dust pans alongside flour, shake out excess.
- In a pocket-sized mixing bowl, stir together finely chopped pineapple amongst one/iv loving cup all-purpose flour, gear up aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl whisk together remaining 2 i/four cups flour, the baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg in addition to table salt.
- In a classify large mixing bowl, using an electric mitt mixer assault medium-high speed, whip together granulated sugar, brown saccharide too eggs until pale as well as fluffy, well-nigh 3 - iv minutes.
- Slowly blend inwards vegetable crude oil, and so mix inwards vanilla extract. Add one-half of the flour mixture together with using a prophylactic spatula, crimp merely until combined. Add mashed bananas in addition to crimp to combine, so add together remaining flour mixture as well as fold until combined. Fold inwards pineapple mixture and chopped pecans.
- Divide batter evenly amongst prepared cake pans. Bake in preheated oven until toothpick inserted into heart of cake comes out clean, well-nigh 34 - xl minutes.
- Remove from oven together with permit to cool inward cake pans x minutes, and then go a knife about border to loosen together with invert onto wire racks to cool completely.
- Frost amongst cream cheese frosting and gently press kokosnoot onto sides. If desired decorate top alongside a ring of whole or chopped pecans most outside edge.
- For the cream cheese frosting: In the mixing bowl using an electrical hand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, whip together cream cheese in addition to butter until smooth together with fluffy.
- Add powdered saccharide too vanilla and blend once more until shade becomes whiter too frosting is fluffy. To house upwardly the frosting a fleck freeze inwards iii minute increments mixing betwixt increments until it'sec reached a slightly stiffer consistency.
Notes
Recipe inspired past Food Network
Amount Per Serving
Calories 658
Calories from Fat 342
% Daily Value*