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Hummingbird cake
- Amanda James
Published: February 21, 2020 at 9:55 AM
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Serves 8-10
Easy
Total time: 1 hr and 15 mins
+ Cooling
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Pineapple and banana meets heady spices in this glorious American cake recipe, sandwiched together with a cream cheese buttercream
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Want to know how to make a classic hummingbird cake? Follow our step-by-step recipe, then check out more easy cake ideas, including our carrot cake, tottenham cake, almond cake and plenty more.
Ingredients
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- 300g, sifted self-raising flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 300g golden caster sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- a good grating nutmeg
- 3, ripe and mashed bananas
- 200ml sunflower oil
- 3 large eggs
- 200g chunks, roughly chopped pineapple
- 1 large, zested orange
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 40g of each, chopped (plus extra for the top) pecans and walnuts
BUTTERCREAM
- 400g icing sugar
- 100g, cubed and softened, plus extra for the tin unsalted butter
- 150g soft cheese
- 1½, zested oranges
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal804
- fat39.8g
- saturates11.2g
- carbs102g
- sugars77.6g
- fibre3.2g
- protein7.7g
- salt0.6g
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Method
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step 1
Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and line two deep 20cm springform cake tins with baking paper.
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step 2
Mix the flour, baking powder, bicarb, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg in a bowl.
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step 3
In a separate bowl, whisk the bananas, oil and eggs to combine. Stir in the pineapple, orange zest and vanilla.
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step 4
Fold the flour mixture into the batter until just combined. Stir through the chopped pecans and walnuts. Divide the mixture between the tins and bake for 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middles comes out clean. Leave in the tins for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
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step 5
To make the buttercream, sift the icing sugar into a bowl, add the butter and soft cheese, and beat with electric beaters for 5 minutes until combined. Stir through the zest of 1 orange.
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step 6
Ice a thin layer on top of one of the cakes, sandwich the other on top and ice again. Leave to set in the fridge for 20 minutes. Top with the remaining nuts and orange zest.
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Amanda James
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