Hummingbird Poke Cake

Kelly Fouche
Kelly Fouche @cook_16791374
Cape Town

The best birthday cake for a non-sweet tooth. Thanks for the recipe https://www.willcookforsmiles.com/hummingbird-poke-cake/ #sweettooth

Hummingbird Poke Cake

The best birthday cake for a non-sweet tooth. Thanks for the recipe https://www.willcookforsmiles.com/hummingbird-poke-cake/ #sweettooth

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Ingredients

  1. Cake:
  2. 3 cupsflour
  3. 1 cupwhite granulated sugar
  4. 3/4 cupbrown sugar
  5. 1 tspbaking soda
  6. 2 tspcinnamon
  7. 1 1/4 cupvegetable oil
  8. 3eggs
  9. 2 tspvanilla extract
  10. 4medium ripe bananas
  11. 225 gcrushed pineapple with juice
  12. 100 gchopped walnuts
  13. Sweet Sauce:
  14. 1 cancondensed milk
  15. 1 cupcrushed pineapples juice squeezed out
  16. 1 tspcinnamon
  17. 1/2 cupOrley Whip
  18. 2 tubscream cheese softened
  19. Frosting:
  20. 1/2 cupunsalted butter softened
  21. 1 cupicing sugar
  22. 1 tspvanilla essence
  23. 1 tspcinnamon
  24. 50 gfinely chopped walnuts
  25. 50 gchopped pecans for topping of the cake

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 180C and grease a 9x13 casserole dish.

  2. 2

    Combine flour, white and brown sugars, baking soda, walnuts, and cinnamon in a large mixing bowl.

  3. 3

    In a separate bowl, whisk together oil, eggs, vanilla essance, crushed pineapple and mashed bananas. Whisk until all combined.

  4. 4

    Pour wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix until smooth.

  5. 5

    Pour cake batter into the prepared dish and spread it evenly. Bake for 40 minutes.

  6. 6

    While the cake is baking, make the sweet sauce. In a mixing bowl, whisk together condensed milk, pineapple, cinnamon and Orley Whip.

  7. 7

    Let the cake cool for about 10 minutes. Poke holes (pencil thickness) all over the cake.

  8. 8

    Evenly, pour sweet sauce all over the cake. Let it seep in and cool completely before frosting.

  9. 9

    To make the frosting, beat together the butter and cream cheese and then the icing sugar, cinnamon and vanilla essence until the frosting is light, smooth and fluffy.

  10. 10

    Once the cake is cooled, evenly frost the cake all over and add the chopped walnuts all over the top of the frosted cake.

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