Gluten Free Hummingbird Cake

A gluten free hummingbird cake recipe is so very often requested by readers, and it’s taken me all this time to comply. I think it’s because the original 1978 Southern Living Hummingbird Cake recipe is such a classic that I didn’t want to mess it up and risk sullying all of those precious decades-long memories so many of you have with this “Making the Best of Bananas” cake. For the uninitiated, a hummingbird cake is an incredibly moist banana-pecan cake made with canned crushed pineapple, covered in a soft cream cheese frosting (which you’ll want to eat with a spoon all on its own). The cake itself is so tender and flavorful that you’ll really want to be sure that you don’t make the frosting so sugary and stiff that it, well, clashes? You’ll see what I mean…

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