Monday, August 27, 2018

Recipe - Hummingbird Cake


Ingredients
  • 250g self-raising flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon Masterfoods Ground Cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
  • 150g brown sugar
  • 440g can crushed pineapple, drained
  • 50g desiccated coconut
  • 2 ripe bananas, mashed
  • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
  • 2 eggs, lightly beaten
  • 250ml (1 cup) sunflower oil

Cream Cheese Icing
  • 100g cream cheese
  • 50g unsalted butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 225g (1 1/2 cups) icing sugar mixture
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts, to garnish (optional)

Method
  1. Preheat oven to 170°C.
  2. Grease and line the base of a 23cm square cake pan. Sift flour and spices into a large bowl. Add sugar, pineapple, coconut, banana, walnuts, eggs and oil. Stir to combine.
  3. Spread into lined pan and bake for 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Place on a rack and set aside to cool.
  4. To make icing, place cheese, butter, vanilla and icing sugar in an electric mixer and beat until smooth. Spread on top of cooled cake. Garnish with walnuts, if desired.


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