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Hummingbird Cake

This delicious Hummingbird Cake recipe is a classic southern cake originally found in Southern Living magazine that is filled with bananas, pineapple, and pecans, and frosted with an amazing cream cheese frosting.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword hummingbird cake recipe, southern living hummingbird cake
Prep Time 35 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Assembly 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings 16
Calories 692kcal
Author Kat Jeter & Melinda Caldwell

Ingredients

Hummingbird Cake

  • 3 cups All-purpose Flour
  • 2 cups Sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1 teaspoon Ground cinnamon
  • 3 Eggs beaten
  • 1 ½ cup vegetable Oil
  • 1 ½ teaspoon Vanilla extract
  • 8 ounces Crushed pineapple undrained
  • 4 cups Pecans divided
  • 3 cups Mashed banana

Cream Cheese Frosting:

  • 8 ounces Cream cheese
  • 1 cup Butter
  • 16 ounces Powdered sugar
  • 2 teaspoons Vanilla extract

Instructions

Hummingbird Cake:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  • Combine dry ingredients in the bowl of your mixer.
    dry ingredients for hummingbird cake
  • Add eggs and vegetable oil mixing on medium speed until moistened.
    adding eggs to the cake batter
  • Add vanilla extract, crushed pineapple, 1 cup of chopped pecans, and mashed bananas and continue to mix until the batter fully comes together.
    adding fruit to the cake batter
  • Spoon batter into 3 well greased and floured 9 inch cake pans. Dividing it evenly between the pans.
    hummingbird cake batter in 3 round cake pans
  • Bake at 350 degrees F for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick stuck in the center comes out clean.
  • Cool cakes for 10 minutes then remove from the pans.

Cream Cheese Frosting:

  • Place Cream Cheese and butter in the bowl of a mixer and whip together until smooth.
  • Add powdered sugar and whip until fully incorporated.
  • Add vanilla extract and continue to whip until fully mixed in.

Assembly:

  • Place one layer of cake on your cake plate and frost the top. Place the next layer of cake on that and add another layer of frosting. Place the last layer of cake on top of that and use the remaining frosting to cover the entire cake.
    frosting baked hummingbird cake
  • Take the remaining pecans and press them into the sides of your cake, or on top of your cake. You can chop the pecans or use pecan halves. It’s all up to you!
    hummingbird cake with cream cheese frosting and crush pecans on the sides of the cake

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Nutrition

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 692kcal | Carbohydrates: 87g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 37g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Cholesterol: 76mg | Sodium: 374mg | Potassium: 329mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 61g | Vitamin A: 635IU | Vitamin C: 5.3mg | Calcium: 48mg | Iron: 2.1mg