Hummingbird Cake
Course
Dessert
Cuisine
NZ
Servings
Prep Time
12
people
15
minutes
Cook Time
1
hour
Servings
Prep Time
12
people
15
minutes
Cook Time
1
hour
Ingredients
The Cake
3
cups
plain flour
2
cups
sugar
1
teaspoon
each of baking soda
salt, ground cinnamon
3
eggs
beaten
3/4
cup
vegetable oil
I use canola or rice bran
1 1/2
teaspoon
vanilla essence
1
can crushed pineapple
about 250g undrained
1
cup
chopped walnuts
1 3/4
mashed ripe bananas
Cream Ceese Icing
1/2
cup
softened butter
250
g
Cream Cheese
500
icing sugar
1
teaspoon
vanilla essence
extra walnuts for decoration
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 180c. Grease and line 2, 23 springloaded cake tins. Ensure the paper is 4-5cm higher than the rim of the tins.
Combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in a large bowl.
Add the beaten eggs and oil.
Stir until the dry ingredients are moist. Do not beat!
Add the vanilla, pineapple, walnuts and bananas and gently stir again until just combined.
Pour half the mixture into each of the prepared tins.
Bake for 35-40 mins or intil a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
Cool for 10 mins and then remove from tins and cool completely.
Make the icing by creaming the softened butter and cream cheese together
Add icing sugar and vanilla essence and beat until light and fluffy.
Sandwich the 2 cakes together with half the icing when cakes are cold and the rest of icing on top of the cake,
Decorate with more walnuts.