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Meg, I just looked up my Hummingbird Cake recipe and it is strange. It calls for crushed pineapple, 2 cups chopped bananas, 2 cups nuts and by the nuts, it says optional. It has no apples in it. Remember the friend I visited back a month or so ago, she gave it to me and it is in her hand-writing. Does yours call for bananas? Do you think she could have left out the apples or this is just a different recipe? Just got me to thinking and I knew I had a recipe for Hummingbird Cake.

The apple cake has canned apples..Different cakes.
I use 1 cup of chopped nuts in my Hummingbird cake..if I use them at all.

Hummingbird Cake

PREPARATION:
Preheat oven to 350°.Grease and flour bundt pan..

INGREDIENTS:
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
3 eggs, beaten
1 1/4 cups vegetable oil (I use 1 and 1/3..think 1/4 will work)
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract I spilled a bit more ..LOL
1 can (8oz) crushed pineapple, well drained ( I don't drain mine)
1 cup chopped pecans
2 cups chopped firm ripe banana

Cream Cheese Frosting:
16 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 cup butter, room temperature
2 pounds confectioners' sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 to 1 cup chopped pecans

Sift flour, sugar, salt, baking soda and cinnamon together into
mixing bowl several times. ( I sift once and use my spatula
to throughly mix dry ingredients)
Add eggs,vanilla, and vegetable oil to the dry ingredients.
Stir and fold with a wooden spoon until ingredients are
moistened..
Fold in bananas, pineapple,nuts.

BAKE in 350 degree oven for 45 to 60 minutes..I bake mine about
55 minutes.
Let cool on rack for 20 minutes before taking it out of pan.
Let the cake cool completely before covering.

Do not beat batter! I don't frost this cake to cut down on calories as I bake it often and use it like coffee cake as well as dessert..

APPLE BLOSSOM CAKE

PREPARATION:
Preheat oven to 325°.Grease and flour bundt pan..
(I use Pam with Flour Spray nowadays..so much easier)
INGREDIENTS:
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 and 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon apple pie spice
3 eggs, beaten (The original recipe called for two eggs..I do both..depending on how many eggs I have.)
1 1/3 cups vegetable oil
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract I spilled a bit more ..LOL
1 can sliced apples ,chopped
1 cup chopped walnuts
Sift together and combine dry ingredients in large mixing bowl.Add beaten eggs and oil and vanilla, stirring until all ingredients are moistened...Gently stir in apples and nuts..Do not beat the batter.

Bake in 325 degree oven for about 1 hour 20 minutes..Recipe said an hour and a half..
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I use this as an everyday sort of cake and don’t frost it and sometimes don’t use nuts....but here’s a recipe:

Cream Cheese Frosting:
16 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 cup butter, room temperature
2 pounds confectioners’ sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 to 1 cup chopped walnuts