Hummingbird Poke Cake

Name: Hummingbird Poke Cake
Cuisine: South African
Ingredients: 3 cups flour; 1 cup white granulated sugar; 3/4 cup brown sugar; 1 tsp baking soda; 2 tsp cinnamon; 1 1/4 cup vegetable oil; 3 eggs; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 4 medium ripe bananas; 225 g crushed pineapple with juice; 100 g chopped walnuts; 1 can condensed milk; 1 cup crushed pineapples juice squeezed out; 1 tsp cinnamon; 1/2 cup Orley Whip; 2 tubs cream cheese softened; 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened; 1 cup icing sugar; 1 tsp vanilla essence; 1 tsp cinnamon; 50 g finely chopped walnuts; 50 g chopped pecans for topping of the cake

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

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

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Ingredients

Cake:
3 cupsflour
1 cupwhite granulated sugar
3/4 cupbrown sugar
1 tspbaking soda
2 tspcinnamon
1 1/4 cupvegetable oil
3eggs
2 tspvanilla extract
4medium ripe bananas
225 gcrushed pineapple with juice
100 gchopped walnuts
Sweet Sauce:
1 cancondensed milk
1 cupcrushed pineapples juice squeezed out
1 tspcinnamon
1/2 cupOrley Whip
2 tubscream cheese softened
Frosting:
1/2 cupunsalted butter softened
1 cupicing sugar
1 tspvanilla essence
1 tspcinnamon
50 gfinely chopped walnuts
50 gchopped pecans for topping of the cake

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Steps

1

Preheat the oven to 180C and grease a 9x13 casserole dish.
2

Combine flour, white and brown sugars, baking soda, walnuts, and cinnamon in a large mixing bowl.
3

In a separate bowl, whisk together oil, eggs, vanilla essance, crushed pineapple and mashed bananas. Whisk until all combined.
4

Pour wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix until smooth.
5

Pour cake batter into the prepared dish and spread it evenly. Bake for 40 minutes.
6

While the cake is baking, make the sweet sauce. In a mixing bowl, whisk together condensed milk, pineapple, cinnamon and Orley Whip.
7

Let the cake cool for about 10 minutes. Poke holes (pencil thickness) all over the cake.
8

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

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