OLD FASHIONED SOUTHERN HUMMINGBIRD CAKE

Old Fashioned Southern Hummingbird Cake image

Provided by Cynthia Rivers Martinez @Devinesalvage

Categories Cakes

Number Of Ingredients 16

3 cup(s) a.p. flour
2 cup(s) sugar or you can substitute 2 cups truvia for diabetic friends
1 teaspoon(s) baking soda
1/2 teaspoon(s) salt
2 cup(s) drained crushed pineapple
1 1/2 T tablespoon(s) cherry juice or you can use chopped cherries
1 cup(s) coconut
2 cup(s) mashed bananas approx 6 bananas
1 cup(s) toasted pecans *
1 teaspoon(s) butter and nut vanilla
2 large eggs in cake ingredients
FROSTING
12 ounce(s) softend cream cheese
1/2 stick(s) real butter
3 cup(s) powdered sugar or for diabetic you can use truvia *
1 tablespoon(s) butter and nut vanilla flavoring

Steps:

Prepare 2-9" rounds buttered and floured then lined with parchment paper.
Take one bowl and mix all dry ingredients for cake and set aside. Then take another bowl and mix all wet ingredients for cake. Slowly mix the two together with mixer starting with we ingredients and slowly adding in dry. After complete spoon mix in the toasted pecans. * For toasted pecans I just add a couple of tablespoons of real butter to skillet and toss the pecans on med to low heat until they are toasty and yummy.
Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes, depending on your oven check to make sure toothpick comes out clean.
When they come out set aside on cooling rack for 15-30 minutes until they are cool. You don't want to add the icing when they are hot because it will melt and slide off of cake.
Mix all the Frosting ingredients (making sure you have softened cream cheese and butter before you start). You can use 2 cups of PS to make it less sweet. To make the diabetic version take you Truvia and put in coffee grinder to make it powdered. Ice the cake following the above directions. You can sprinkle with additional toasted pecans if you wish. You could also just add the pecans to the frosting and leave them out of the cake.