Hummingbird Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

Cake
3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 cups finely chopped bananas
3/4 cup chopped nuts (optional)
1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
3 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, undrained
Frosting
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups powdered sugar
1 -3 tablespoon milk

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350\u00b0.
Grease and flour 9 or 10-inch tube pan, or 3 9-inch layer cake pans.
Set aside.
Sift together flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and ground cinnamon into a large bowl.
Add bananas, nuts, oil, eggs, vanilla, and pineapple, stirring by hand (do not use electric mixer).
Pour batter into prepared tube pan and bake for 70 minutes, or layer pans for 25-30 minutes.
Let cool in pans for 10 minutes, then remove from pans and cool completely on wrack.
While cake is cooling, mix cream cheese and butter until combined.
Stir in vanilla.
Gradually add powdered sugar, alternating with milk, until desired consistency is reached.
Frost on cooled cake.