How to Bake a Humming Bird Cake

This is how to bake a humming bird cake. This is very a easy cake to make. It's a nice dessert thats not too sweet. It also has a light glaze that can be added. With or without the glaze the cake is very good.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 3 cups of flour
• 2 cups of sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp soda
• 1 cup of vegetabe oil
• 3 ripe bananas-diced
• 1 8oz can crushed pineapple, drained
• 1 cup of pecans, chopped
• 3 eggs beaten
• Cream Cheese Glaze
• 8 ounce cream cheese
• 1 tbs unsalted butter
• 1 tbs lemon juice
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1 tbs each, lemon and orange zest-finely minced
• 1 1/2 cups of sifted confctioner's sugar.

1. In a medium bowl, mix first four ingredients together. Add oil, bananas, pineapple, pecans, vanilla and eggs. Mix with an electric mixer for 2 minutes.

2. Pour batter into a well greased bundt pan, or spray with non stick cooking spray.

3. Bake at 350 for an hour and 20 minutes.

4. Check doneness by inserting a tooth pick in the top of the cake, if the tooth pick comes out clean, the cake is done. Cool and remove from the pan.

5. For glaze, soften cream cheese and mix with the butter. Stir in lemon juice, vanilla and citrus zest. Mix in powered sugar to make icing.