A moist, spicy, sweeeeet tropical layer cake topped with cream cheese icing and dried pineapple flowers. It's a terrific cake, but heavy and sweet. Recipe - www.axis-of-aevil.net/archives/2006/03/hummingbird_cake.html
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Elaine Ashton
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Barca_Branca [deleted] 87 months ago | reply
Very spring look !!
geek_kitten 87 months ago | reply
Oh wow, those pineapple flowers look great! I definitely have to try and make some.
(Oh, the rest of the cake looks, and sounds, good too, although I don't like pecans, or any other nuts really. Maybe I could use almonds instead..)
hfb 87 months ago | reply
GK - They were a total accident and turned out to be the star of the cake. If you make them and put them on top of a cupcake, I would really love to see how cute they look :)
And as far as nuts go...hmmm....I've never actually tried almonds and banana together so I can't say that it won't work well. Maybe try hazelnut if you like those. I don't think the nuts are obligatory so maybe leave them off and see if it works. :)
Robrrt 87 months ago | reply
I showed this picture to the girls at work and they oohhed and aahhed and wowwwed for quite some time afterwards :)
hfb 87 months ago | reply
Ayntryte :) *blush* I'm delighted they liked it!. Tell them it's a dead easy cake to make. Theirs might look even nicer since I can't ice cakes worth a damn. :)
bechau_qn 86 months ago | reply
Wow !!! These flowers are soooo cute and so real !!! How talented you are !!!
Love the flowers . Thank you so much for the recipe & details direction .
cakebaker_cakemaker 81 months ago | reply
These flowers are are beautiful addition to the Hummingbird cake.
Thanks for the recipe link.:):)
I have just one question about the flowers. What did you put on the flowers to make the white centre? (I have read the directions but it doesn't tell me that ):):)
hfb 81 months ago | reply
cakebaker - :) Delighted you like them. I didn't put anything on the pineapple to make the centre white, they just dry like that. :)
cakebaker_cakemaker 81 months ago | reply
hfb thanks, they are amazing:):)
lovecake 46 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called "4 the Love of Cake!", and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Lovely idea with the dried pineapples!
j_barnhart4 43 months ago | reply
I featured your photo on my cake blog today. It's really beautiful.
OccasionsbyEmily 43 months ago | reply
I love the pineapple flowers. I featured it today on my company's facebook page: occasions by emily
dazedaisy1 37 months ago | reply
Wow these are AMAZIIIIIINNNNGG!! I can't praise you enough! But alas, I tried to make my own and failed. Mine were hideous compared to yours! They were brown, some more than others and I didn't have a cookie cutter...any suggestions as to what went wrong? I sliced them thinly, but mine were just not that color, how did you get yours to be such a gorgeous yellow?
hfb 37 months ago | reply
Hrm....no idea why they might have gone brown on you. I dried them really slowly though in a low-heat oven. It takes about a day. If you did that and they still turned brown, maybe try sprinkling lemon juice on them.