Hummingbird cake...

So, still on the topic of birds, I thought I'd include this:

  pre-Easter hummingbird cake trial 

(before)

and (after)

A-mazing!

Hummingbird cake.  The recipe here makes a HUGE amount (mine was 3x 12inch round cakepans!).

The only thing I changed was the quantities of nuts etc.- I just added a handful instead of measuring- and I also added a can of peaches.  I reserved the juice from the peaches and pineapple for the icing and only used half of the cream cheese.  I also used a runny drizzle of icing sugar and the reserved juices between the layers- I cut each cake base through the middle and thought they needed a bit extra moisture (but they probably didn't)!

It got a good reportcard from everyone- light enough for us cooks who like to cook but not eat all the cake...and yummy enough for the rest!

The only thing I did differently for our Easter cake was roughly chop the peaches.

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