Hummingbird Poke Cake. The classic Southern Hummingbird Cake gets a pineapple upside-down twist for a sweet dessert. Whenever it was, they enjoyed a time of popularity for several years and helped increase the sales of. Using an electric mixer, beat together cake mix, banana, crushed pineapple, oil, water, eggs, and cinnamon until smooth.

Full of pecan, pineapple and banana flavor. It is said that the reason this cake is called Hummingbird is because when your guests take their first. Beautiful and easy spring and summer dessert. You can have Hummingbird Poke Cake using 25 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Hummingbird Poke Cake

You need of Cake:.
Prepare 3 cups of flour.
You need 1 cup of white granulated sugar.
It's 3/4 cup of brown sugar.
It's 1 tsp of baking soda.
Prepare 2 tsp of cinnamon.
It's 1 1/4 cup of vegetable oil.
It's 3 of eggs.
Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
It's 4 of medium ripe bananas.
Prepare 225 g of crushed pineapple with juice.
Prepare 100 g of chopped walnuts.
You need of Sweet Sauce:.
Prepare 1 can of condensed milk.
It's 1 cup of crushed pineapples juice squeezed out.
Prepare 1 tsp of cinnamon.
It's 1/2 cup of Orley Whip.
Prepare 2 tubs of cream cheese softened.
You need of Frosting:.
You need 1/2 cup of unsalted butter softened.
Prepare 1 cup of icing sugar.
Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla essence.
It's 1 tsp of cinnamon.
It's 50 g of finely chopped walnuts.
Prepare 50 g of chopped pecans for topping of the cake.

It's a cake you literally poke holes in so a filling can ooze down in it. A maaaaajor major delicious cake flavor that I've never really paid attention to. Banana, pineapple and pecan in perfect harmony. You'll be hard-pressed not to eat this right out of the pan.

Hummingbird Poke Cake step by step

Preheat the oven to 180C and grease a 9x13 casserole dish..
Combine flour, white and brown sugars, baking soda, walnuts, and cinnamon in a large mixing bowl..
In a separate bowl, whisk together oil, eggs, vanilla essance, crushed pineapple and mashed bananas. Whisk until all combined..
Pour wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix until smooth..
Pour cake batter into the prepared dish and spread it evenly. Bake for 40 minutes..
While the cake is baking, make the sweet sauce. In a mixing bowl, whisk together condensed milk, pineapple, cinnamon and Orley Whip..
Let the cake cool for about 10 minutes. Poke holes (pencil thickness) all over the cake..
Evenly, pour sweet sauce all over the cake. Let it seep in and cool completely before frosting..
To make the frosting, beat together the butter and cream cheese and then the icing sugar, cinnamon and vanilla essence until the frosting is light, smooth and fluffy..
Once the cake is cooled, evenly frost the cake all over and add the chopped walnuts all over the top of the frosted cake..

With plenty of addictive cream cheese frosting. Banana, pineapple and pecan in perfect harmony. I think of this cake as banana cake meets the tropics, in that it is loaded with bananas, laced with fresh pineapple and covered in sweet, toasted coconut. Hummingbird Cake is a Southern classic! It's a spiced pineapple-banana cake topped with cream cheese frosting and pecans.