Hummingbird Poke Cake
Hummingbird Poke Cake

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, hummingbird poke cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Hummingbird Cake, with its moist texture and flavoring from pecans, pineapple, and banana, is one of my favorite southern cakes. Usually I make a traditional-style Hummingbird Layer Cake with Cream Cheese Icing, but I was in the mood to make a poke cake, Hummingbird style. Hummingbird Cake is traditionally a spice cake with pineapple, banana and pecans topped with cream cheese frosting. To toast pecans, sprinkle in ungreased heavy skillet.

Hummingbird Poke Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Hummingbird Poke Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook hummingbird poke cake using 25 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Hummingbird Poke Cake:
  1. Make ready Cake:
  2. Make ready 3 cups flour
  3. Take 1 cup white granulated sugar
  4. Prepare 3/4 cup brown sugar
  5. Take 1 tsp baking soda
  6. Make ready 2 tsp cinnamon
  7. Get 1 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  8. Take 3 eggs
  9. Take 2 tsp vanilla extract
  10. Prepare 4 medium ripe bananas
  11. Take 225 g crushed pineapple with juice
  12. Prepare 100 g chopped walnuts
  13. Make ready Sweet Sauce:
  14. Get 1 can condensed milk
  15. Get 1 cup crushed pineapples juice squeezed out
  16. Make ready 1 tsp cinnamon
  17. Take 1/2 cup Orley Whip
  18. Make ready 2 tubs cream cheese softened
  19. Make ready Frosting:
  20. Prepare 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
  21. Make ready 1 cup icing sugar
  22. Get 1 tsp vanilla essence
  23. Make ready 1 tsp cinnamon
  24. Get 50 g finely chopped walnuts
  25. Get 50 g chopped pecans for topping of the cake

You can help push the pudding into the holes if it's thick. Allow cake to cool completely for next step. Fun fact: Hummingbird cake is actually from Jamaica! It was originally called "Doctor Bird Cake," which is a nickname for a type of Jamaican hummingbird.

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

Fun fact: Hummingbird cake is actually from Jamaica! It was originally called "Doctor Bird Cake," which is a nickname for a type of Jamaican hummingbird. People say the cake earned its name because. In a large bowl, beat the bananas, oil, eggs, pineapple and vanilla until well blended. In another bowl, combine the flour, sugar, salt, baking soda and cinnamon; gradually beat into banana mixture until blended.

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