Hummingbird Cake

On my way home from work today, I treated myself to a little something from the baking accessories shop. I grabbed a flan tin and a fluted bundt tin. Goodies! Very excited about baking a lovely hummingbird cake, I set to it. The following is not my recipe, but I can't remember which intertubes site I got it from so I can't link it to a site or a blog. I did however, adapt what I wrote down as I was throwing it together tonight, just like to personalise things, you know.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups plain flour
• 1/2 cup caster sugar
• 1/2 tsp bicarb soda
  
• 1/2 cup of nuts (walnuts,almonds,hazelnuts,pecan,macadamia,etc), roughly chopped
  
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp allspice
  
• 3/4 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup neutral oil (canola,grapeseed,vegetable)
• 2 eggs
  
• 1/2 cup chopped pineapple, including some juice
• 1 very ripe banana, mashed

Preheat the oven to 180C. Add all the ingredients together, mix well and pour into a greased cake tin. I used a 24cm fluted bundt tin, but I think that was a bit big, so you can go definitely go for a smaller tin. And any shape is fine. Cook for about 20 mins, but make sure to check after about 15 mins.
Mixin it up
My new tin is too big for the mixture!!!
Straight out of the oven, it rose a wee bit!
TA DAAAA!

That's it for now, until next time, bon apetit!