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Old Fashioned Hummingbird Cake
Old Fashioned Hummingbird Cake recipe is a nostalgic recipe, perfect for spring. This moist, fluffy cake is topped with pecans, and is a must-have at special occasions, from birthdays to baby showers. This old fashioned hummingbird cake recipe is a classic southern recipe. With banana and pineapple baked inside, this version of hummingbird cake is made with cream cheese icing instead of vanilla buttercream.

Ingredients
Cream Cheese Frosting
Instructions
- Step 1
Pre-heat oven to 350 F. Spray (3) 9-inch cake pans with baking spray. Set to the side for later.
- Step 2
Whisk together flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powdered, salt, and cinnamon.
- Step 3
In another bowl cream together eggs, oil, vanilla, crushed pineapple, and mashed bananas.
- Step 4
Then pour the flour mixture into the wet and mix just until incorporated.
- Step 5
Evenly pour batter into 3 cake pans. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Step 6
Let cakes cool for about 25 minutes then remove from the pans and put on a cooling rack. Then let cakes cool completely before frosting.
- Step 7
Once cakes are cool frost the cakes.
- Step 8
Refrigerate the cake for up to 3 days.
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