Grandma June's Recipe Box · Chapter 37

Quilting Bee Hummingbird Cake

“The South's favorite layer cake: banana, pineapple and pecans.”

You'll need

• 3 cups flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 3 eggs, beaten
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1½ tsp vanilla
• 1 can (8 oz) crushed pineapple, with juice
• 2 cups mashed ripe bananas (about 4)
• 1 cup chopped pecans
• 16 oz cream cheese, softened (frosting)
• 1 cup butter, softened (frosting)
• 8 cups powdered sugar (frosting)
• 1 tsp vanilla (frosting)

How to make it

1. Heat the oven to 350°F. Grease and flour three 9-inch round pans.
2. Whisk the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
3. Stir in the eggs and oil just until moistened, then the vanilla, pineapple, bananas and pecans.
4. Divide among the pans and bake 25–30 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool completely.
5. Beat the cream cheese and butter, then the powdered sugar and vanilla, until fluffy.
6. Stack the layers with frosting between them, then frost the top and sides.

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