rinemb - Posted - 01/13/2011:  09:22:59

I have recently heard about "Hummingbird Cake", and now I want to eat one. I would like to read some discussion about this cake and its history and your variations, etc. I have never made one, but I am offering this recipe that I found, for an opener.
Thanks, Brad

HUMMINGBIRD CAKE

Ingredients:
•3 cups all-purpose flour
•2 cups granulated sugar
•1/2 teaspoon salt
•2 teaspoons baking soda
•1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
•3 eggs, beaten
•1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
•1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
•1 can (8oz) crushed pineapple, well drained
•1 cup chopped pecans
•2 cups chopped firm ripe banana
•.
•Cream Cheese Frosting:
•16 ounces cream cheese, softened
•1 cup butter, room temperature
•2 pounds confectioners' sugar
•2 teaspoons vanilla extract
•1/2 to 1 cup chopped pecans
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350°.

Sift flour, sugar, salt, baking soda and cinnamon together into mixing bowl several times.
Add eggs and salad oil to the dry ingredients. Stir with a wooden spoon until ingredients are moistened.
Stir in vanilla, pineapple and 1 cup pecans. Stir in the bananas.
Spoon the batter into 3 well-greased and floured 9-inch round cake pans.
Bake for 25 to 30 minutes,or until a wooden pick or cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn onto cooling rack. Cool completely before frosting.

Cream Cheese Frosting:
Combine cream cheese and butter; cream until smooth. Add powdered sugar, beating with an
electric mixer until light and fluffy. Stir in vanilla.

Frost the tops of all 3 layers, stack and then frost sides.
Sprinkle top evenly with the 1/2 to 1 cup chopped pecans.

Edited by - rinemb on 01/13/2011 11:58:12

Bell - Posted - 01/13/2011:  10:33:07

My mom use to make this and I loved it. I always requested it for my birthday cake. You should try it.

Mark Johnson - Posted - 01/13/2011:  13:43:03

MMMMMMMMMMMMMM, hummingbird cake.

There used to be an amazing soul food restaurant in Waterville, Maine of all places. She made a hummingbird cake that I can still taste. I bet I could eat a whole one all by my lonesome.

trapdoor2 - Posted - 01/13/2011:  19:22:28

Substitue chow mein noodles for the pecans on the frosting.

Call 'em "hummingbird bones".

Mom raised 4 boys...