Easy cake recipe for 10-12 people, takes only 45 mins; recipe has vegetable oil, self-raising flour, baking powder, golden caster sugar, cinnamon, cardamom pod, nutmeg, banana, egg, pineapple chunks, pecan, soft cheese, butter, honey, icing sugar, orange and edible flowers.
Spiced hummingbird cake
Course: Easy cake
Servings
10 - 12
servings
Prep time
30 mins
Ingredients
- Vegetable Oil: 225ml vegetable oil, plus extra for the tins
- Self Raising Flour: 300g self-raising flour
- Baking Powder: 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Golden Caster Sugar: 300g golden caster sugar
- Cinnamon: 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- Cardamom Pod: 2 cardamom pods, cracked open and seeds finely crushed
- Nutmeg: whole nutmeg, for grating
- Banana: 2 very ripe bananas, mashed
- Egg: 3 medium eggs, beaten
- Pineapple Chunks: 150g pineapple chunks, from a can, drained and chopped
- Pecan: 80g pecans, finely chopped
- Soft Cheese: 200g full-fat soft cheese
- Butter: 150g softened, unsalted butter
- Honey: 80g runny honey
- Icing Sugar: 80g icing sugar
- Orange: 1 large orange, zested
- Edible Flowers: edible flowers and dried pineapple rings, to decorate (optional)
Directions
- Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Oil two 20cm, loose-bottomed cake tins and line the bottom of each one with baking parchment.
- Sieve the flour into a largemixing bowl, and add 1/2 tsp salt and the baking powder. Stir through the sugar, cinnamon, cardamom and a very good grating of nutmeg. In a separate bowl,whiskthe mashed bananas through the eggs and oil until well combined. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and tip in the wet mixture. Fold everything together until combined, then mix through the pineapple and pecans. Spoon the mixture into the tins and bake in the centre of the oven for 35-45 mins or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tins for about 10 mins before transferring to awire rackto cool down completely.
- Meanwhile, put the soft cheese, softened butter, honey and sugar into a mixing bowl and beat together until just combined. Try not to overbeat the mixture or it will become too soft and runny. Chill for 30 mins in the fridge before using.
- Put one of the cakes on a serving plate and spread with half the icing. Top with the other cake and smooth over the remaining icing. Finish with shavings of orange zest, edible flowers and dried pineapple rings, if you like.Will keep in an airtight container for up to three days.
