Recipe for Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting and Raspberries

Photo: The Pretty Blog

Not only does it taste delicious but what an absolutely stunning way to dress up a layered hummingbird cake.

Fresh raspberries on a delicious tangy cream cheese frosting make this cake really stand out. Pretty as a picture too.

If you’re not familiar with hummingbird cake, think of the perfect union of banana cake and carrot cake (with some pineapple thrown in for good measure). Like carrot and banana cakes, I always find that hummingbird cakes are a real crowd-pleaser. And this one even more than usual.

So if you’re looking for a recipe for a hummingbird cake that will impress, this is it. I stand by what I said earlier – best hummingbird cake ever…

The exceptionally talented Nicola and Christine at The Pretty Blog shares this delighful Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting and Raspberries.

Recipe for Hummingbird Cake

 

Ingredients

For the cake:

• 300g castor sugar
• 3 eggs
• 300ml sunflower oil
• 270g peeled bananas, mashed
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, plus extra to decorate
• 300g plain flour
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 100g tinned pineapple, chopped into small pieces
• 100g shelled pecan nuts (or walnuts), chopped, plus extra, chopped and whole to decorate
• 2 quantities Cream Cheese Frosting

For the Cream Cheese Frosting and decoration:

• 500g icing sugar, sifted
• 50g unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 125g cream cheese, cold
• 2 punnets raspberries to decorate.
• Icing sugar to dust.

Instructions

1. For the full recipe go here: Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting and Raspberries.

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