Hummingbird Bundt Cake

This moist homemade Hummingbird Bundt Cake is so delicious, with wonderful flavor from bananas, pecans, crushed pineapple, and cinnamon.

We just love bundt cake recipes, and this one is bursting with flavor! We can't wait for you to try it.

Why we Love this Recipe

There are so many reasons to love this hummingbird bundt cake. Here are just a few!:

• Super moist with amazing flavor- especially from the bananas, pineapple, and pecans. (The banana flavor reminds me of our favorite Banana Cake, and the addition of pecans and pineapple remind me of our carrot cake recipe!).
• With just a simple cream cheese glaze, there is very little decorating time involved!
• This is a great make-ahead recipe that can be wrapped and frozen for up to three months.
• We love Classic Cakes, from Italian Cream Cake to German Chocolate Cake, Carrot Cake, and more!
• Perfect as a year-round recipe for picnics and potlucks, and makes a great birthday cake recipe too!

How to Make Hummingbird Bundt Cake

You can find the full, printable cake recipe further down in this post. Here is a quick rundown of our steps!

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, Grease and flour bundt pan. (We used a pan with capacity of 12 cups)

• Combine the first five dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. (This includes the all purpose flour, granulated sugar, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.) Whisk to blend.

• Add the room temperature eggs and vegetable oil, stirring with a spoon until the dry ingredients are moistened. Do not beat the mixture.
• Mash the ripe bananas.

• Add the vanilla extract, crushed pineapple, chopped pecans, mashed bananas and stir until combined.

• Spoon batter into the prepared bundt cake or tube pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean or with just a few crumbs attached.

• Cool in the cake pan on a cooling rack for 10 minutes before turning out.

• This recipe makes 6 cups of batter.

FOR THE CREAM CHEESE GLAZE

Just as with our classic homemade hummingbird layer cake, we wanted to bring in cream cheese flavor. However, rather than using a classic cream cheese frosting, we are going to use a simple, flavorful cream cheese glaze.

The slight tanginess from the cream cheese glaze is the perfect complement to the fruity, spiced flavor of this hummingbird bundt cake.

The glaze couldn't be simpler to whip up.

• With an electric mixer (we used a handheld mixer), add the softened cream cheese to a bowl and mix until smooth. Then, add the powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and milk.

• (You can adjust the consistency as needed by adding more powdered sugar to thicken, or more milk to soften.)

Decorating the Bundt Cake

While you can spoon the cream cheese glaze onto the cooled bundt cake, we like to pipe it on for a little more control.

Simply spoon the glaze into a disposable piping bag with the tip snipped away (or a ziplock bag with a corner snipped away), and pipe over the cake.

We topped with crushed pecans.

Here is our finished cake! I love the look of the simple cream cheese glaze topped with pecans.

Caramel Glaze Option

*A caramel glaze is a great option for this cake as well! We used a caramel glaze for our Sweet Potato Bundt Cake, and another version in our Apple Pecan Bundt Cake.

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More Hummingbird Cakes!

In addition to today's hummingbird bundt cake, you should also try our scratch Hummingbird Cake, Coconut Hummingbird Layer Cake, and Hummingbird Cake from Cake Mix! These are all such delicious options.

In addition, don't miss our other favorite banana cake recipes (including banana cupcakes, banana pudding cake, banana pound cake, and more!)

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