Hummingbird Cake

Grocery List or things you need to be sure you have on hand: flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda, table salt, eggs, vegetable oil, vanilla bananas, pecans or walnuts (optional), canned crushed pineapple; cream cheese, butter or margarine, powdered sugar
Approximate Preparation Time: 20 minutes preparation; 30 minutes cooking time
Ease of Preparation: Moderately Complicated
List of Ingredients:
Cake:
3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 cup cooking oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups chopped banana
1 cup chopped nuts
1 8 oz. can undrained crushed pineapple
Icing:
8 oz. package cream cheese, softened
1 stick butter or margarine
1 lb. box powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Directions:
Cake: Combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, soda and salt. Mix together until blended. Stir in eggs, oil and vanilla, then add chopped bananas (chopped), nuts and pineapple. Pour into a jelly roll pan (13" by 9" by 2") or 3 8" layer pans and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Cool before icing.
Icing: Combine softened cream cheese, butter and vanilla. Gradually add in powdered sugar so that it can be dissolved evenly. Spread on cooled cake.
Hints, Tips and Variations If you don't like nuts or you're cooking for somebody who can't eat them, you can omit them.
Good Cooks Tell All: This is one of the most delicious, moist cakes I've ever eaten. It's a talking cake because it keeps calling your name until you have another piece.
Submitted by: Jean Higgins Root
The Source of This Recipe: I got this recipe from the hospital cook at Fairview, OK about 25 years ago.
Skinny It Down: You can substitute Splenda or its equivalent

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