Cake Emergency!

[Leanne]

Hi everyone - I have a huge request. I am getting married in September. My favorite cake is a hummingbird cake - which my cake lady agreed to do. I sent her the Southern Living Recipe & she said it tasted great, but it wouldn't do as a wedding cake because it was too hard to cut & got crumbly after a couple of days. I've had hummingbird cake before that almost looked like a yellow cake on the inside. Does anyone have this recipe, or know what I can do to make the other recipe OK? Thanks so much for your help!!!!

[Deanna]

First of all, if your cake lady is a professional, she should know what to do to modify your recipe so that it will work for you. Sounds as if she doesn't want to bother!

I checked my MasterCook and found a recipe for Hummingbird cake, don't know WHERE I got it from, probably a clipping. Check this against your recipe and see if it is the same. Good luck to you, I hope you can get the cake you want for your wedding!

* Exported from MasterCook *

Hummingbird Cake

Recipe By :
Serving Size : 12 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Desserts

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 ounces crushed pineapple in juice
1 cup cooking oil
3 large eggs
2 cups bananas -- chopped
1/2 cup pecans or walnuts -- finely chopped
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
GLAZE:
1 tablespoon melted margarine
1 cup powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 375. Grease 10-inch Bundt pan or tube pan.

Mix flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda and salt.

Remove 2 tablespoons of juice from pineapple and set aside for glaze.

Add pineapple, oil, eggs, banana, nuts and vanilla to flour mix. Stir until blended (don't beat!!) Pour into pan. Bake 1 hour 10 mins (check after 1 hr) until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes. Remove cake from pan by inverting onto wire rack.

GLAZE: In mixing bowl combine melted butter and powdered sugar, add enough reserved pineapple juice to make drizzling consistency. Drizzle over cooled cake.

*You may use rum instead of pineapple juice


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Per serving: 546 Calories (kcal); 24g Total Fat; (38% calories from fat); 5g Protein; 80g Carbohydrate; 47mg Cholesterol; 220mg Sodium
Food Exchanges: 1 1/2 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 1 Fruit; 4 1/2 Fat; 3 Other Carbohydrates


Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 901089 0 0 0 0

[newsomz]

I have a recipe for a hummingbird cake that i got out of the Whistle Stop Cafe cookbook by fannie mae. (the lady who wrote fried green tomatoes). It is really good. i'll post it if you can't find it at the library or something.

[Vanessa]

HI congrats on your coming nuptials. I agree with Deanna a proffesional baker should be able to deal with the challenge of making your cake. My advice is to ALWAYS try the cake you are going to serve in your wedding.
How many days it took for the cake to get crumbly? Did you get a taste of it? Please look around other bakeries.

[Deanna]

okay here's another suggestion...(typing with my boy cat on my lap is tough so bear with me if typos occur!)

Go to http://www.allrecipes.com and search for "hummingbird cake". They have five recipes; see if any of them are different from what you have. Maybe one of them will work!

P.S. Just in case you are dying to see who is sitting on my lap, go here (he is the black boy cat who loves to pose for the camera) http://home.sprintmail.com/~msphoebe/

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[Deanna]

Gettin' goofy again...here's the love of my life...Cheeto!

http://home.sprintmail.com/~msphoebe/_uimages/BlackCat.JPG

P.S. I think I really need to get out more...

[Gail]

Originally posted by Deanna:
P.S. Just in case you are dying to see who is sitting on my lap, go here (he is the black boy cat who loves to pose for the camera) http://home.sprintmail.com/~msphoebe/

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Hey, Deanna! NICE house. Congratulations and hope all those contracts aren't bogging you down... BTW. You have great taste in kid's names-- I chose the same one ten years ago! http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/biggrin.gif

PS Thanks so much for telling who Cheeto is. All this time I thought you were talking about snack food!

[Deanna]

Funny story...this cat is SCARED STIFF...all the time! I'm not kidding this is the most skittish cat on the planet. If he is on my lap and I re-cross my legs he goes beserk!

When we first got him (he was born to a feral (wild) cat in the neighborhood)our friends had found the litter of kittens in their woodpile in the back yard. They set out food and trapped them, one by one. When Cheeto came to us, Josh brought him over in a pet-taxi. I looked in there and wasn't sure it was a cat! All I could see were those huge eyes and ears. At six or eight weeks old, he looked more like a bat. His fur has always been very "sleek" not fluffy. He made the weerdest crying noises and literally scared the socks off me for several days.

He hid under the bed and never came out. That is, until one day my son was sitting on the sofa eating those orange corn-things called Cheetos. He dropped a piece on the floor (grrrr!) and out pops the little black cat's head to eat one! Thus, his name. Cheeto, or Chi Chi for short.

P.S. My son says "Mom, if that cat could talk he would probably lisp!" I don't even care. He's mama's good boy!!

P.S. Mine is an "Andrew Jacob", what is yours? Originally he was to be named after Nellie Fox...Jacob Nelson...that I could have lived with, but I knew my husband would be calling him "Nellie" and that I could not tolerate! So we took "Jacob" from his great grandfather...and built on that!

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[Gail]

Andrew Bryan, in memory of my sister's son who died in a car accident at the age of 16.
(Please make sure YOURS wears his seat belt)

[Deanna]

Oh Gail, how sad! When I read that it just sent chills up my spine! Andrew is VERY good about the seat belt issue. He had a friend who died two years ago at the age of 15; was thrown from a car when his friend decided to go "hill jumping."

It's just a tragedy to lose them!

[Leanne]

Thanks everyone. She is professional & does really wonderful cakes - but I think she doesn't want to bother either - plus it's so soon & I know she stays busy. The allrecipes.com site is great by the way. I'm still working on this!

[JeanneW]

I don't understand why the baker is concerned about the cake being crumby after a couple of days. I don't know anything about professional cake baking, but how far in advance does she plan to bake the cake? It wouldn't be more than the day before, would it? That would have me concerned.

Also, looking at Deanna's recipe it seems that this would be a very moist cake. I can't imagine it being crumbly.

I agree, it sounds like she's trying to discourage you. But keep trying!

[lorilei]

I know that when I was checking around for someone to bake my wedding cake, I found a lot of bakers who would make cakes ahead of time and then freeze them until just before the wedding, when they would thaw and decorate the cake. My sister's cake was one of these -- and it definitely came out dry... not to mention that it didn't freeze well at all the second time.

I wanted to be sure my cake wouldn't be this way, so I looked around for a baker who would bake the cake a day or two ahead -- and no more than that. It was actually hard to find someone... so be careful. This woman sounds like that's what she might be doing.

[Laura B]

Deanna - your Cheeto looks very much like my baby. You can see him at http://www.geocities.com/laurahboyd/petcentral.html

Leanne - sorry for being distracting, but I cannot resist cat talk!

[Deanna]

Laura! What fun pictures! Thank God the deep fryer wasn't hot!!! He sure looks like a fun little boy...Cheeto is so jumpy as soon as you catch him doing something fun he stops and bolts upright or runs away.

I especially love the Christmas tree photo; who would blame him for climbing it! I've done that little de-greasing number myself...Phoebe came home drenched in used motor oil. Have no idea where it came from but boy was it a mess!

Thanks for sharing! =^..^=