Hummingbird Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
A delicious take on a Southern favorite cake recipe, the Hummingbird Bundt Cake is a banana cake with tropical flavors that is the perfect cake for birthdays and large gatherings!
A Hummingbird Bundt cake is a version of the southern classic hummingbird cake. Chock full of banana flavor studded with pineapple and coconut and topped with a delicious cream cheese frosting, this moist cake is perfect for Easter dessert, birthdays, potlucks, and more!
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❤️ Why you’ll love it
Tropical flavors: a combination of fresh flavors from banana, pineapple, and coconut.
Tender moist cake: mashed banana and pineapple make this a very tender moist cake recipe!
Cream cheese frosting: is creamy and delicious and adds another layer of sweetness on the cake.
What Is A Hummingbird Cake
The hummingbird cake originated in Jamaica and was a cake named after the island’s national bird called the doctor bird (aka hummingbird). This cake became popular in the southern states in the 1970’s when a recipe for it was published in an issue of Southern Living magazine and has since become known as a southern favorite cake recipe in the United States.
A hummingbird cake is a dense cake typically a 2-3 layer cake made with banana, pineapple, and coconut and frosted with a cream cheese frosting. This Hummingbird Bundt Cake Recipe is a take on the original recipe.
🥘 Hummingbird Bundt Cake Ingredients
All purpose flour
Ground cinnamon
Ground allspice
Baking soda
Salt
Overripe bananas
Crushed Pineapple
Shredded coconut
Granulated sugar
Brown sugar
Large eggs
Unsalted butter
Vanilla extract
Cream cheese
Confectioners’ sugar
Toasted pecans
Baking spray
🔪 Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F and generously coat an 8’’-10’’ Bundt pan with baking spray.
- In a medium bowl, combine the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, and allspice, set it aside.
- In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, combine the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until smooth and creamy.
- Mash the bananas in a separate bowl. Stir the crushed pineapple into the mashed bananas
- Add the banana mixture to the creamed sugar mixture, mixing on medium-high speed until all the ingredients are well combined.
- Using a large rubber scraper, gradually fold in the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients until they are just combined.
- Pour cake batter into the prepared pan, ensuring that it is ⅔ to ¾ full.
- Bake for 50 minutes, or until a long cake tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out mostly clean.
- Remove bundt cake from the oven and cool cake in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
- Add the softened cream cheese to a mixing bowl and add the powdered sugar gradually until desired thickness is achieved.
- You can spoon the frosting to the cake or you can add it to a piping bag with a large hole cut for thicker frosting. Slowly add the frosting to the crown of the cake allowing for a variety of drips to form.
- Top the frosting with the chopped pecans.
🥄 Equipment
12-cup bundt pan (a 14-cup bunt pan can be used as well)
Large bowl
Medium bowl
Electric mixer
Fork (to mash banana)
Rubber scraper
Cake tester
Wire rack
🥫Storage
Room temperature: Store leftover cake in an airtight container up to 2 days
Refrigerator: Store cake in a freezer safe container up to 5 days.
📖 Variations
Cherry version: add ½ cup chopped maraschino cherries to the cake batter.
Mini bundt cakes: use mini bundt pans to make a smaller scaled version of the bundt cake making sure to adjust baking time (should take less time for smaller bundt pans).
Pina Colada Hummingbird Bundt Cake: substitute rum extract for the vanilla extract.
💭 Tips
- Vegetable oil or coconut oil can be substituted for the melted butter.
- If you only have pineapple chunks, process the entire can (including juice) in a food processor until the pineapple has shredded (5-6 pulses).
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🍽 Serve Hummingbird Bundt Cake with..
Serve hummingbird bundt cake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a cup of hot coffee or tea. It is perfect for birthday’s and potlucks.
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📖 Recipe
Hummingbird Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
A delicious take on a Southern favorite cake recipe, the Hummingbird Bundt Cake is a banana cake with tropical flavors that is the perfect cake for birthdays and large gatherings!
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Instructions
Make the bundt cake
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Preheat oven to 350F and generously coat an 8’’-10’’ Bundt pan with baking spray.
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In a medium bowl, combine the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, and allspice, set it aside.
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In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, combine the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until smooth and creamy.
-
Mash the bananas in a separate bowl. Stir the crushed pineapple into the mashed bananas
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Add the banana mixture to the creamed sugar mixture, mixing on medium-high speed until all the ingredients are well combined.
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Using a large rubber scraper, gradually fold in the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients until they are just combined.
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Pour cake batter into the prepared pan, ensuring that it is ⅔ to ¾ full.
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Bake for 50 minutes, or until a long cake tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out mostly clean.
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Remove bundt cake from the oven and cool cake in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
Make the cream cheese frosting
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Add the softened cream cheese to a mixing bowl and add the powdered sugar gradually until desired thickness is achieved.
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You can spoon the frosting to the cake or you can add it to a piping bag with a large hole cut for thicker frosting. Slowly add the frosting to the crown of the cake allowing for a variety of drips to form.
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Top the frosting with the chopped pecans.
Nutrition
Calories: 448kcalCarbohydrates: 64gProtein: 5gFat: 20gSaturated Fat: 11gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0.5gCholesterol: 80mgSodium: 286mgPotassium: 222mgFiber: 2gSugar: 42gVitamin A: 624IUVitamin C: 4mgCalcium: 46mgIron: 2mgNet Carbohydrates: 62g
