Recipe for ';Hummingbird'; cake? It doesn't have real hummingbirds in it...?

This cake takes its name from the fact that it tastes so good, you'll ';hum'; when you eat it.





INGREDIENTS


3 cups all-purpose flour


2 cups white sugar


1 teaspoon baking soda


1/2 teaspoon salt


1 teaspoon ground cinnamon


1 1/4 cups vegetable oil


3 eggs


1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple with juice


2 cups diced bananas


1 cup chopped pecans


1 teaspoon vanilla extract


DIRECTIONS


Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 12 cup Bundt pan.


Measure flour, sugar, soda, salt, cinnamon, oil, eggs, vanilla into mixing bowl. Beat until smooth. Stir in pineapple with juice, bananas, and pecans. Pour into prepared pan.


Bake in oven for about 70 minutes. Turn cake out onto rack or plate after cooling for 20 minutes. Cool, and ice with cream cheese icing.Recipe for ';Hummingbird'; cake? It doesn't have real hummingbirds in it...?
I don't have the recipe. I can tell you that there are NOT real hummingbirds in it.Recipe for ';Hummingbird'; cake? It doesn't have real hummingbirds in it...?
No never heard of it.
No, it's got four and twenty blackbirds....where the name ';Hummingbird'; comes from....beats me.
No it doesn't have Hummingbirds in it.





It is as follows.





Hummingbird Cake





2 cups Flour


1 1/2 cups Sugar


1 tsp. Salt


2 tsp. Baking Soda


1 tsp. Cinnamon


1 cup Oil


3 Eggs


1 cup Bananas, choped


1 8oz. can Crushed Pineapple


1 cup Chopped Pecans





Sift first 5 ingredients together then mix in the rest of the ingredients. Pour into greased and floured round cake pans and bake at 350 dgrees for 30 to 35 minutes.





Frosting:





1 box White Powdered Sugar


1 8 oz. Cream Cheese


1 stick Margarine





Mixed together.
Hummingbird Cake


Serves: 15





Prep: 15 min Bake: 43 min Cool: 1 hr











1 (8-ounce) can crushed pineapple, in juice undrained


1 (10-ounce) jar red maraschino cherry,well drained and finely chopped (1/2cup)


1 package Betty Crocker Supermoist yellow (lemon) cake mix


1 cup mashed very ripe bananas (about 2 medium)


1/2 cup vegetable oil


1 teaspoon ground cinnamon


3 eggs


Easy Vanilla Glaze


(see Fabulous Frostings and Glazes chapter)








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1 Heat oven to 350掳. Generously grease bottom only of rectangular pan, 13 x 9 x 2 inches, with shortening; lightly flour.


2 Drain pineapple in colander set over a bowl, pushing pineapple against side and bottom of colander with back of wooden spoon to squeeze out as much juice as possible; reserve juice. Drain


chopped cherries on paper towels; pat dry.


3 Add enough water, if necessary, to reserved pineapple juice to measure 1/3 cup. Beat cake mix, pineapple, bananas, oil, cinnamon, pineapple juice mixture and eggs in large bowl with electric


mixer on low speed 2 minutes. Stir in cherries. Pour into pan.


4 Bake 38 to 43 minutes or until cake springs back when touched lightly in center. Run knife around side of pan to loosen cake. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Spread Easy Vanilla Glaze over


top of cake. Store loosely covered at room temperature.





High Altitude (3500 to 6500 feet): Heat oven to 375掳. Omit pineapple juice and oil. Add 1/2 cup water and 1/4 cup all-purpose flour. Bake 38 to 43 minutes.





1 Serving: Calories 330 (Calories from Fat 110); Fat 12g (Saturated 2g); Cholesterol 45g; Sodium 330mg; Carbohydrate 56g (Dietary Fiber 1g); Protein 3g. % Daily Value: Vitamin A 2%; Vitamin C 2%; Calcium 4%; Iron 4%.





*Do not use frozen bananas. Frozen bananas contain too much moisture and may cause the cake to sink and become gummy.





Betty's Tip This cake is great to make ahead for a bake sale or potluck dessert party. Our taste testers agree, this cake not only tastes great the day it's made, it's even better the next day!





From ';Betty Crocker's Ultimate Cake Mix Cookbook.'; Text Copyright 2005 General Mills, Inc