Hummingbird Cake

Arborealus · Post by **Arborealus** » August 28, 2003, 12:48 pm

Hummingbird Cake

Ingredients:

Cake:

3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3 eggs beaten
1 cup vegetable oil
1&1/2 teaspoons vanilla
8oz crushed pinapple with juice
1 cup bananas chopped
1 cup of pecans chopped

Frosting:

1 8oz package of cream cheese
1/2 cup sweet butter
1 pound powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup pecan halves (for decoration)

Instructions:

Cake:

Combine flour, sugar, soda, salt, and cinnamon...Mix well...Add eggs and oil and stir until mixed...Do not beat...Stir in remaining ingredients and spoon into 3 greased and floured 9-inch cake pans...Bake at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes or until a fork inserted in the center comes out clean...Cool in pans for 10 minutes before removing then allow to cool completely...Frost each layer adding successive layers until the cake is completely frosted...Decorate with pecan halves...

Frosting:

Cream together all ingredients...Reserving pecan halves for decoration...

So there it is...Nanny's best cake recipe...Small slices...This stuff will knock your socks clean off...If ya love it hug your gramma...

Inject insulin as necessary...

Download the theme song for this cake HERE (Song prolly NWS)

Hrmmm damn the MAN and his ebil filters! Hummingbird Torta!

Sirensa · Post by **Sirensa** » August 28, 2003, 1:04 pm

OMGZ YUM!!

I need more time to cook.

And I need calories to not count ;D

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » August 28, 2003, 1:37 pm

hehe add spaces between letters in c a k e

Arborealus · Post by **Arborealus** » August 28, 2003, 1:43 pm

Ennia wrote:hehe add spaces between letters in c a k e

But...that's just what they'd be expecting!

Skogen · Post by **Skogen** » September 2, 2003, 7:51 pm

c a k e

I don't see any hummingbird meat in the recipe! What gives?