Hummingbird cake recipe | Good Food

Hummingbird cake recipe | Good Food

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This showstopping spiced hummingbird cake tastes of summer, with pineapple and banana flavours, tangy cream cheese frosting and delicate edible flowers

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Ingredients

  • 225ml vegetable oil plus extra for the tins
  • 300g self-raising flour
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 300g golden caster sugar
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 2 cardamom pods cracked open and seeds finely crushed
  • whole nutmeg for grating
  • 2 very ripe bananas mashed
  • 3 medium eggs beaten
  • 150g pineapple chunks from a can, drained and chopped
  • 80g pecans finely chopped
  • 200g full-fat soft cheese
  • 150g softened, unsalted butter
  • 80g runny honey
  • 80g icing sugar
  • 1 large orange zested
  • edible flowers and dried pineapple rings, to decorate (optional)

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