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    Home » Everything Amish » Plain Culture

    Amish Hummingbird Cake

    Published: May 26, 2016 · Updated: May 26, 2016 by Kevin Williams | 1 Comment

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    My hummingbird cake at Blackbery Corners - Yum, despite the chaotic atmosphere inside the place.

    hummingbird2By Kevin Williams

    I sampled some of this delicious cake at Blackberry Corners, a small dive in an obscure patch of Ohio about 5 miles south of the Lake Erie shore.  I can't imagine the place is ever that crowded (I think their claim to fame are their pies and their potato chip-topped pizza)  but for about 10 days each May it is transformed into a packed place the Greatest Week of Birding, an annual festival held nearby that celebrates the spring migration of our feathered friends.  So you have a bunch of Subaru driving birders from all over descending by the dozens on this normally quiet diner.  I've been there a couple of times during the birding festival, they are the closest diner to the all the bird action, and I just think the get overwhelmed during that week.  Service is usually pretty slow and the wait staff, understandably perhaps, seem harried and haggard.  But this homemade hummingbird cake was delicious.

    I have this Amish recipe from a woman in Shipshewana, Indiana.  The Amish version usually does not have pineapple, but some people do add undrained pineapple to theirs.  Anyway, check out here recipe!

    Amish Hummingbird Cake
     
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    Prep time
    10 mins
    Cook time
    30 mins
    Total time
    40 mins
     
    Serves: 1 cake
    Ingredients
    • 3½ c. flour
    • 1 t. baking soda
    • 1½ t. cinnamon
    • 1½ c. sugar
    • 1 c. vegetable oil
    • 1 t. salt
    • 3 eggs, beaten
    • 1½ t. vanilla
    • 2 c. crushed bananas
    • 1 c. nuts
    • Frosting:
    • 8 oz. cream cheese
    • ½ c. butter
    • 3-4 c. powdered sugar
    Instructions
    1. In a bowl, combine flour, soda, and cinnamon.
    2. Cream together oil, sugar, and vanilla.
    3. Beat until fluffy.
    4. Add eggs.
    5. Blend in dry ingredients.
    6. Add remaining ingredients and mix well.
    7. Pour into a greased 9x13 baking pan.
    8. Bake at 350° F. for 25-30 minutes; cool.
    9. For frosting, cream together cream cheese and butter.
    10. Add powdered sugar to reach desired consistency.
    11. Spread over cooled cake.
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    About Kevin Williams

    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

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    1. Pam

      May 27, 2016 at 9:55 am

      Silly question I know, but can this cake be made without the banana's?

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