Hands down a hummingbird cake is probably one of my favourite cakes around. I remember being introduced to the flavours by my boss at my first real “full time” job. I was the marketing assistant at a lingerie company (a lifetime ago now).⠀
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Our office was attached to the warehouse, in what was a fairly ordinary part of Melbourne suburbia. Our salvation was “Chaddy”, the shopping centre down the road with a food court, coffee shops & Hummingbird Cake.⠀
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Last week I bought a pineapple and it prompted me to bake a hummingbird for the first time!
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Better than a carrot cake, the flavours of banana and pineapple amp up this beauty and it will become your all time favourite!
Ingredients
Cake
- 2 mashed bananas (around 1 cup)
- 2 eggs whisked
- 450gm diced pineapple (reserve juice). I used fresh and drained it, otherwise a can is fine
- 1/3 cup of reserved pineapple juice
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1 tspn vanilla essence
- 3/4 cup of coconut sugar
- 1 tspn stevia
- 1/2 cup dessicated coconut
- 2 cups of SF flour (25ogm)
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- pinch salt, coriander & nutmeg
- tspn cinnamon
- 1/2 tspn of baking powder
Icing
- Small can of coconut cream refridgerated for 24 hours, cream separated and scooped off top of tin
- 1 tspn of stevia
- 2 drop of orange or lemon essential oil (I use Doterra)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius and line a large cake tin with baking paper
- In a bowl mix all wet ingredients (eggs, banana, olive oil, pineapple, juice, vanilla)
- Fold and stir in well all dry ingredients (sugar, stevia, flour, coconut, spices, walnuts)
- If mix is very thick, add a little more pineapple juice
- Pour batter into cake tin
- Bake for 45 minutes to an hour, when skewer inserted comes out clean
- Allow to cool before removing from tin and icing
- If icing the cake with coconut cream scoop out and whip the thick cream that has separated in the can, add a few drops of a citrus essential oil & stevia for sweetness
Notes
I absolutely love cream cheese icing but not everyone in my family tolerates dairy. By all means go ahead and lather the cake with your favourite icing.
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