Hummingbird Cake

It is a banana-pineapple-walnut-spice cake with cream cheese frosting. I also added applesauce in place of most of the oil. If you like banana bread, you will LOVE this cake! It is moist, dense and so delicious.

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% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Step 1

Preheat oven to 180 Celsius degrees. Line the bottom of three 8 inch cake pans with wax paper, and grease the sides.

Step 2

In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Add applesauce, oil, eggs and vanilla. Mix until smooth. Stir in pineapple, bananas and walnuts. Divide equally into prepared pans.

Step 3

Bake for 25-30 minutes, until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Allow to cool on a rack.

Step 4

In a large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Mix in the vanilla. Add the sugar a few cups at a time, beating until fluffy.

Step 5

Now I'm going to show you how to decorate it with a petal technique.

Step 6

A yummy recipe and a decorating tutorial...it's a Two-fer!

Step 7

This design was inspired by My Cake School.

Step 8

I think it is my new favorite - so easy and so pretty!

Step 9

Cover your cake with a crumb coat (very thin layer of frosting).

Step 10

Prepare a decorating bag with a large round tip (Wilton #12).

Step 11

Pipe a vertical line of dots on the side of your cake.

Step 12

Use a small spatula to press down on each dot, dragging to the right.

Step 13

Make another line of dots, just to the right of your petals. Repeat.

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