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Hummingbird Cake - Gluten Free
Hummingbird Cake - Gluten Free
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Hummingbird Cake - Gluten Free

4.4
15 mins
1 hours
Easy
10

If you would like an extra zesty flavour in this Hummingbird Cake, add in the lemon zest of 1 ½ lemons when making the cake, and sprinkle a little zest on the cream cheese icing.

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Ingredients

Cake

  • 1 x 440g can crushed pineapple in natural syrup, drained
  • 1 ripe banana, peeled, mashed
  • Finely grated rind of 1 lemon
  • ⅓ cup (60g) desiccated coconut
  • 1 cup (220g) Chelsea Organic Coconut Sugar
  • 1 cup (150g) ground almonds
  • 1 cup (150g) Edmonds Gluten Free Plain Flour
  • 2 tsp Edmonds Baking Powder
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 4 extra large eggs
  • ½ cup (125ml) Simply Pure Vegetable oil

Cream Cheese Icing

  • ½ cup (125g) cream cheese, softened
  • ¾ cup (115g) Chelsea Icing Sugar, sifted
  • 2 tsp lemon juice
  • Shredded coconut, for decoration

Chelsea Products in Recipe

Organic Coconut Sugar

Organic Coconut Sugar

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Icing Sugar

Icing Sugar

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Method

Preheat oven to 180ºC conventional (160ºC fan forced). Grease a 6cm deep, 21cm x 10cm loaf tin or tin of similar size, and line with baking paper, allowing a 2cm overhang at sides.

Cake
Combine pineapple, banana, lemon rind, coconut, Chelsea Organic Coconut Sugar and ground almonds in a medium sized bowl. Sift over the Edmonds Gluten Free Plain FlourEdmonds Baking Powder and cinnamon.

Put eggs and oil in a separate bowl and whisk with a fork until combined. Add to flour mixture and use a wooden spoon to mix until combined.
Pour mixture into prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour, or until skewer inserted comes out clean. Stand in tin for 10 mins to cool, then invert onto cooling rack.

Icing
Beat the cream cheese with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Add Chelsea Icing Sugar and lemon juice and beat until light and creamy. Spread over cake. Decorate with coconut.

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