Hummingbird Cake

By stherio1

Ingredients

• ICING:
• 3 cups flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/4 cups Crisco oil
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup crushed pineapple, undrained
• 1 cup chopped pecans
• 1/2 cup chopped maraschino cherries
• 1 1/2 cups mashed babanas
• 1 1/2 pkgs.(8 oz.) cream cheese softened
• 1 1/2 sticks butter
• 5-6 cups confectioners sugar
• 1 1/2 tap vanilla
• pacan halves
• Maraschino cherry halves

Preparation

Step 1

Sift first 5 ingredients together into large mixing bowl.
Mix eggs and oil together and stir into dry mixture, then stir in next 5 ingredients. Divide batter between 3 greased and floured layer cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees sor 25 to 30 minutes or until cake tester comes put clean. Cool and ice.

ICING:
Cream butter and cream cheese together. Add sugar, a little at a time, until of spreading consistency. Add vanilla. Ice cooled cake and decorate top with cherry and pecan halves.