Give it a try and let me know what you think. Similar to carrot cake, which is often considered the quintessential spring cake, but dare I say.even better! To me, this cake screams spring, and would be a great to your Easter dessert table or your Mother's Day dessert. Honestly, I don't know why this isn't the traditional frosting for pretty much every cake ever. Oh the frosting! A cream cheese frosting is traditional and best for hummingbird cake - This recipe is a lighter version of cream cheese frosting, whipped heavy cream folded into the frosting, making it lighter and oh so amazing. This takes the place of milk or buttermilk in a traditional cake recipe. I use large flaked unsweetened toasted coconut to garnish this cake too. This cake is sweet enough, and the addition of coconut is to taste the coconut, not add extra sugar. Cinnamon is warm and just mellow enough to be the perfect compliment. Hummingbird cake is really like a great banana bread turned into a cake, and it needs some spice. Extra tip.you should always be toasting your nuts when baking with them, it makes a bigger difference than you think. I promise you that you will not regret it. Finely chopped pecans (or use walnuts if you prefer).this is now available in most supermarkets (all of them near me), but also amazon Here is everything you need for the cake itself: Also the crushed pineapple gets added with all of its glorious juices and super ripe bananas make for a moist, nicely sweet cake. There is more fruit than flour in this cake, and let me tell you, that is not a bad thing. Like all of my cake recipes (pretty much) this is an oil-based cake. In fact so much so, that when I managed a bake shop this was our for our Hummingbird cake. Spray three 8-inch round cake pans with nonstick spray, line the bottoms with parchment paper and spray again. Also coconut is a total compliment to the pineapple and the banana. The small addition that, I think, elevates this cake is coconut. Why this cake is different from old fashioned versions Google also informs us that the cake is named for the hummingbird because it is sweet enough to attract one - how cute. via the Jamaican press packets, versions of it started showing up in local papers throughout the South. After the recipe initially making it's way to the U.S. The Jamaican tourist board, trying attracting tourists, sent out press packets that included recipes, including this cake. A quick google search tells you will find that the cake likely originated in Jamaica in the 1960s (the ingredients would suggest this is true).
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