This hummingbird cake filled with tropical flavours is always a crowd pleaser. It is beautifully moist so it keeps for days too.
Function: Circo Therm®
Hummingbird Cake
Ingredients
1 2/3 cups self raising flour
1 tsp mixed spice
1 1/2 cups brown sugar firmly packed
2/3 cup chopped toasted walnuts
1/2 cup coconut
1 x 450g can crushed pineapple, well drained
1 cup ripe banana, mashed (approx. 2 large)
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup rice bran or canola oil
2 tsps vanilla
Frosting
125g cream cheese, well softened
2/3 cup icing sugar
1/2 cup full cream milk powder
Pulp of 1 passionfruit
Grated rind of 1/2 a lemon, optional
Toasted shredded coconut, for decoration
Method
Preheat the oven on CircoTherm® 160°C
Sift the flour and spice into a bowl then stir in the sugar, walnuts and coconut. Whisk together in a jug the fruit, oil, eggs and vanilla then stir through the dry ingredients until well combined. Pour the mixture into a greased and fully lined 23cm round cake pan.
Bake for 55-65 minutes or until cooked through when tested with a skewer. Cool in the tin for 20 minutes then allow to cool thoroughly on a wire rack. Store in an airtight container until required.
Combine in a bowl the cream cheese, sugar and milk powder, beat until smooth then stir through the passionfruit pulp and lemon rind.
Spread the frosting over the top of the cake and decorate with coconut. Chill until the frosting has firmed enough to slice the cake. Serve immediately.
Notes
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Authors Bio
As an experienced home economist and Food Designer Trish has worked over the span of her career in the food and home appliance industry as a demonstrator, teacher, recipe developer and food stylist. For more than 20 years she worked for and later managed the test kitchen for a large FMCG company working on some of Australia’s most trusted and iconic food brands, developing recipes and usages for their products as well as styling mouth watering images for cookbooks and websites. She has also appeared regularly as a brand ambassador on a number of well loved television cooking shows.