Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Hummingbird Cupcakes


Looking back at my posts, I realised it has been some time since I last posted what I have baked. Yes, I'm still baking every weekend-or at least I try to. I made these hummingbird cupcakes recently. These cupcakes contained banana and crushed pineapple pieces which I think it is a fantastic combination. Very tropical and moist. Although the recipe did not come with frosting notes, I deliberately used cream cheese as I believe that the combination will be tasteful.

So anyway, give it a go. It's pretty healthy as well given the use of olive oil. I made 12 cupcakes and 14 tiny patty cakes from this recipe.


Hummingbird Cupcakes
makes 24 cupcakes
3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
3 eggs
3/4 cup vegetable oil/olive oil
1-1/2 tsp vanilla
1 8oz can crushed pineapple, with liquid
2 mashed bananas
1 cup coursely chopped pecans

1. Mix flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, salt with a whisk in a good sized bowl.
2. Beat eggs.
3. Add oil and vanilla to beaten eggs and mix until somewhat combined.
4. Add egg/oil/vanilla mixture to flour/sugar/baking soda/cinnamon/salt mixture.
5. Mix together pineapple, bananas, pecans until combined.
6. Add to the rest of ingredients and stir to combine.

7 comments:

  1. Oh, I love this! The combination of banana and pineapple = YUMMY!

    Looks really moist too!

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  2. Its like a tropical fruit cake almost isn't it? Have never tried making these but the recipe does call for a cream cheese frosting. You were spot on!! Great blog you have here, why couldn't I have a friend like you when i was in university!! :-)

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  3. hi little corner! it is really moist! I think it's the banana and pineapple pieces (+ fruit juice frm the pineapple). =)

    Paprika- I'm glad I did the right thing afterall! kekeke. thanks for dropping by and do come back more often!

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  4. That looks yummy! Just curious, any idea why it's called hummingbird cupcakes? :)

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  5. East meets west-Welcome to my blog! =) I wonder about the name too. I tried "Googling" it but it didn't come up with anything! *mystery unsolved*

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  6. I found it! Thanks for letting me know that this recipe works for cupcakes. I will make this one day...

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