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Coconut Hummingbird Cake – Thermomix

February 6, 2013 · 24 Comments

Coconut Hummingbird Cake - grain free, gluten free, dairy free

This gorgeous recipe popped up on my Facebook newsfeed before Christmas and I just had to make it. Hummingbird cake is one of my all time favourites and until now, I had never seen a grain-free, gluten-free recipe for it.

This Coconut Hummingbird Cake recipe is the brainchild of the amazing Allison at Frisky Lemon Nutrition. Check out her webpage and facebook. I tweaked it a little and Australiafied and thermomixified it. (They are so real words!)

Allison decorated hers with a lovely cream cheese frosting and pecans, but this was all eaten before I even got the chance to get that far! I think it would be lovely with some coconut cream frosting. It is truly delicious and one of our family’s firm favourites. I hope you like it as much as we do.

Coconut Hummingbird Cake

Vital Stats: Grain Free, Gluten Free, Dairy Free

Okay, this is what you need:

3/4 cup coconut flour

1 tablespoon organic cinnamon (I use Planet Organic brand)

1 teaspoon pink Himalayan salt

1 teaspoon of bicarb soda

10 sulphur-free dates

1 tablespoon organic apple juice concentrate (AJC)

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

1 cup organic,virgin coconut oil

6 organic eggs

2 ripe organic bananas

1 can of Ceres organic pineapple *

1 cup organic walnuts (or pecans)

3 tablespoons filtered water

Okay, so this is how you do it:

* Set your oven to 180 degrees celsius and line a deep, round cake tin with baking paper.

* Chop the nuts in the thermomix, speed 5 for 2-3 seconds. Set aside.

* Chuck the dates in the thermomix with 3 tablespoons of filtered water. Cook for 2 mins on 100 degrees, speed 1.  Whizz on speed 8-9 to make a paste. Cool in the thermy.

* Fling in the AJC, chopped bananas, eggs, vanilla, coconut oil, drained and chopped pineapple and whizz on speed 4 until well combined and pineapple is crushed- about 10 to 20 seconds.

* Whack into the thermomix the flour, bicarb soda, nuts and salt. On REVERSE, mix on speed 3 for 20 seconds until thoroughly combined.

* Pour into cake tin. Bung it into the oven and cook for 45 mins to one hour or until set. Cool on a wire cake rack.

For non-thermomix instructions, please refer to Allison’s recipe here. I hope you love this Coconut Hummingbird Cake!!

Are you a fan of hummingbird cake?

 

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*I found these canned Organic Pineapple Chunks in a BPA free can. I keep a couple in the pantry for recipes.

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Comments

  1. vickilw says

    February 6, 2013 at 5:39 pm

    Your recipes all sound so delicious…Could the hummingbird cake be made without a thermomix?

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      February 6, 2013 at 7:05 pm

      yes indeed Vicki…. under the recipe you will find a link to the original unthermified recipe 🙂

      Reply
  2. Rebekah says

    February 6, 2013 at 5:40 pm

    Hey what would I use if I didn’t have apple juice concentrate? Is it for sweetness or moisture? Or both? This recipe sounds awesome!!

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      February 6, 2013 at 7:05 pm

      use maple syrup or honey or rice malt syrup!

      Reply
  3. Archangel says

    February 6, 2013 at 7:31 pm

    I love that there are so many healthy receipes, but many seem to have nuts in them. It’s frustrating coming from someone who can die by eating a nut!

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      February 6, 2013 at 7:37 pm

      You can easily leave the nuts out of this recipe Archangel!

      Reply
  4. mamacino says

    February 6, 2013 at 8:01 pm

    I am actually considering making this right now!

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      February 6, 2013 at 8:18 pm

      you should!!! it’s amazing 🙂 make the coconut frosting too and tell me if it’s nice

      Reply
  5. Silvana says

    February 6, 2013 at 9:35 pm

    I have to see one of these Thromomix-thinga-mebobs. They sound amazing. And I note you mention that you use a particular Bicarb Soda that is aluminium free! Does that mean most commercial brands have aluminium in them? If so, I’d never heard of that before. BTW the recipe sounds delish and I will be trying it this weekend. Thanks so much. x

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    • Natural New Age Mum says

      February 6, 2013 at 9:55 pm

      Silvana… the thermomix is awesome! I think a lot of the normal brands do, yes, although they won’t say it on the pack!

      Reply
    • Nyree says

      March 6, 2013 at 11:24 pm

      It’s Baking POWDER that often contains aluminium as a free-flow agent, not Baking SODA (pure sodium bicarbonate). Lots of people get them confused 😉

      Reply
  6. This Charming Mum says

    February 7, 2013 at 6:03 am

    Hummingbird cake was my favorite for years! I haven’t been eating much of any cake lately whilst working on my health, but this looks like a brilliant healthy alternative.

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      February 7, 2013 at 8:18 am

      it sure is!

      Reply
  7. Brynley King says

    February 7, 2013 at 9:37 am

    Sonia! Looks fantastic! Can’t wait to try this when I get home 🙂 regards, Brynley.

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    • Natural New Age Mum says

      February 7, 2013 at 3:18 pm

      Tell me what you think Brynley!! 🙂

      Reply
  8. Lou says

    February 7, 2013 at 5:17 pm

    Sounds like a treat for Viper & Misty that’s for sure. Bummer that coconut flour doesn’t really work on it’s own in baking without the eggs (for ME – but I’m greedy!)

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      February 7, 2013 at 6:11 pm

      I know !! poor vegans miss out !! The NNAD is currently making chocolate cupcakes with coconut flour and cacao…. omg they smell amazing!

      Reply
  9. Alex says

    February 7, 2013 at 7:39 pm

    Hi Sonia,
    I made this cake in the thermomix and whilst it is really delicious it came out ridiculously wet!!! I’m going to give it another go and probably leave out the water and blend the dates straight into the dry ingredients and set it aside before blending the wet ingredients.
    Thanks so much for posting this- I was wanting a grain free hummingbird cake recipe!

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    • Natural New Age Mum says

      February 7, 2013 at 7:49 pm

      hhhmm….did you drain the pineapple well??? Mine wasn’t wet, just moist! Did it bake up okay in the end?

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      • Alex says

        February 8, 2013 at 6:03 am

        I used about 3/4 cup of freshly cut pineapple as I had some I needed to use up. The cake baked beautifully and the skewer came out clean, but it was super moist. I got it out of the fridge this morning and it seems to have dried out a bit so it’s perfect now!
        I have a wood fired oven though too which I think is a lot moister to bake in than electric and I’m starting to find that I need to make coconut flour based cakes with a bit less moisture than the recipe calls for to get them to work well and not be too wet.

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        • Natural New Age Mum says

          February 8, 2013 at 8:31 am

          aaah! yes I found it was super moist, but if you put it in the fridge, it firms right up!

  10. Joanne T Ferguson says

    January 2, 2014 at 4:08 pm

    G’day Sonia! Happy New Year to you and your family, true!
    Your cake looks very YUM and wish I could come through the screen and try some right now too!
    Cheers! Joanne

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      January 4, 2014 at 8:25 pm

      thanks Joanne – happy New Year!

      Reply

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