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Top with third cake layer and spread top and sides of cake with remaining frosting.

Banana cake recipe ingredients. I am planning on making a tiered hummingbird special event cake with 10 8 and 6 inch cake sizes for a friend probably aiming for 2 x 2 25 inch layers of each size but due too the density of the cake do. If desired crush additional nuts and press them into the sides of the frosting and put sliced maraschino cherries on top of the cake to gild the lily. That felt weird evening typing that.

Without a doubt the cake is a beauty with its three moist layers topped with cream cheese frosting and pecans. Arrange toasted pecan halves in a circular pattern over top of cake. Add vanilla extract and beat for about another 2 minutes on high speed until completely smooth.

Too much batter for a 913 pan but a 1217 sheet pan would be perfect. Place 1 cake layer on a serving platter. It was just enough to fill crumb coat and frost a 9 inch 3 layer cake.

Impress your friends with this hummingbird cake a recipe that has been passed down through many generations. Use a toothpick to test for doneness. Spread 1 cup cream cheese frosting over cake layer.

With lashings of vanilla butter icing and a cream cheese filling this is a banana cake for the ages. 3 layers with pretty white cream cheese frosting between each layer and covering the outside. This recipe also fits into a bundt pan though the bake time will be long 55 65 minutes.

Wiggins of greensboro north carolina we had no idea the cake would become our most popular and beloved southern cake recipe ever. Impressive to say the least bring this to any family get together and prepare for praise. No hummingbird cake is not made from hummingbirds.

Isnt it so pretty. Add sugar in 2 additions beating well after each addition until smooth. When the hummingbird cake was first submitted to southern living in 1978 by mrs.

Use a toothpick to test for doneness. What is a hummingbird cake. Lucy october 28 2015 at 941 pm reply.

Its a simple enough cake recipe that is guaranteed to be moist and flavorful. But its the taste that really keeps us coming back. Hummingbird cake is an easy sweet taste of the tropics with banana pineapple toasted pecans and the best cream cheese frosting.

To make the frosting. This layer cake is what dessert dreams are made of. I love making and eating big beautiful layer cakes theres something so stunning about looking at a tall.

Thanks for the recipe. Make this recipe for dessert today.