What Shall We Bake Today?

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Today’s offering has an unusual name…Hummingbird Cake!

Ingredients

For the Cake

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/3 cups granulated sugar

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

3/4 tsp. salt

3/4 tsp. baking soda

1/4 tsp. baking powder

1 cup canola oil

2 large eggs, beaten

1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

2 8-oz. cans crushed pineapple in juice, undrained

2 ripe bananas, chopped

1 cup chopped pecans

Nonstick baking spray with flour

For the Frosting

3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened

8 oz. cream cheese, softened

4 cups powdered sugar

1 tsp. vanilla extract

Pinch of salt 

For Decorating

1 cup toasted pecan halves

Directions

For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350°. 

Whisk together the flour, sugar, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, and baking powder in a large bowl. Stir in the oil, eggs, vanilla, and pineapple until evenly combined. Mash the bananas then add to the bowl with the pecans. Stir to combine. 

Spray 2 (8-inch) round baking pans with nonstick baking spray (or, butter and flour the pans). Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans. Bake in the preheated oven until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out with just a few small crumbs, 33 to 37 minutes. Cool the cakes in the pans on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Invert the cakes onto the wire rack and cool completely, about 1 hour.

For the frosting: Beat the butter and cream cheese in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on medium until smooth and creamy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the powdered sugar then mix at low speed just until combined. Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl. Add the vanilla and salt. Beat frosting on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.

Place one of the cake layers on a serving plate and top with about 1 cup of the frosting, spreading evenly to the edge. Top with the second cake layer. Spread the remaining frosting on the top and sides of the cake. 

To decorate the cake: Press the pecan halves along the base of the cake and around the top of the cake to create a ring. Slice and serve. 

ENJOY!

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23 thoughts on “What Shall We Bake Today?”

  6. True the Vote
    @TrueTheVote
    You are correct, @canncon
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  8. this judge should be under review

    Jake

    March 18, 2026 6:53 am

    Liberal judge gone wild?

    Angry Biden Judge Targets Alina Habba, Tosses Out Attorney, Orders Ejected Leaders From New Jersey US Attorney’s Office to Testify in Wild Hearing

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/angry-biden-judge-targets-alina-habba-orders-ejected/

    An angry federal judge on Monday evening ordered three attorneys running the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey to testify about how the office’s leadership structure operates after a judge ruled the DOJ illegally appointed them following Alina Habba’s forced resignation.
    US District Judge Matthew Brann, an Obama appointee, said the current leadership in New Jersey’s US Attorney’s Office exceeds the Attorney General’s authority.

    “One year into this administration, it is plain that President Trump and his top aides have chafed at the limits on their power set forth by law and the Constitution. To avoid these roadblocks, this administration frequently purports to have discovered enormous grants of executive power hidden in the vagaries and silences of the code,” Judge Brann wrote.

    “I conclude that the current leadership structure for the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey exceeds the Attorney General’s statutory authority to appoint inferior officers and delegate them powers and therefore constitutes a unilateral appointment in violation of the Appointments Clause,” the judge wrote.

    We have never seen this kind of District Court judicial insurrection before in our history. Yet they keep doing it despite losing in the higher courts. Even their opinions are no longer non partisan, but filled with political rage and anger.

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  9. Chris Hyde

    March 18, 2026 8:30 am

    If John Cleese says its…

    https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/03/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-3-17-2026/#716290

    Actor John Cleese Warns Britain Will Cease to Exist if Christian Values ‘Are
    Replaced by Islamic Ones’

    English actor John Cleese took to social media on Monday to warn that Britain will no longer exist if its Christian values “are replaced by Islamic ones.”

    “The UK has always been based at the deepest level on Christian values, regardless of dogma,” Cleese said in a Monday X post. “Despite the many mistakes made by churches, for centuries British people have been influenced by Christ’s teaching.”

    “If these values are replaced by Islamic ones, this will not be Britain any more,” the Monty Python’s Flying Circus star added.

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  10. @Real_RobN
    If there is a single reason to PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, this is it:

    Gavin Newsom and his co-conspirators in the California State Assembly passed AB 930 by a vote of 59–16—and it’s spreading to other blue states like cancer.
       •   Extends the mail-in voting deadline by an additional 7 days
       •   Allows illegal immigrants to serve on recount committees
       •   Permits election officials to appoint illegal immigrants to recount boards
       •   Gives mail-in ballots submitted on Election Day an additional 7 days to be counted

    Meaning: Do the ‘2020’’—determine how many votes would be needed after Election Day to overthrow federal, state, and local governments. 

    “AB 930 does not modernize the way people vote. It adds the ability for non-citizens—illegal aliens—to serve as recount board members. I’m not sure why a non-citizen should have any role in overseeing a U.S. election.”

    In other words: EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN is officially on notice: 

    @ElonMuskAOC
     “Failing to pass SAVE is an act of high treason against the people of America.”

    The wrath of MAGA awaits.

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  11. Just The News: “Team USA was defeated by Venezuela in the finals of the World Baseball Classic Tuesday night by a score of 3-2. 

    Eugenio Suarez hit a clutch double in the ninth inning to give Venezuela the win. Bryce Harper had tied the game up in the bottom of the eighth with a two-run homer. Wilyer Abreu had a solo home run for Venezuela. 

    This was the sixth time the World Baseball Classic, which started in 2006, has taken place. Japan has won it three times, Dominican Republic once, the U.S. has won it once and now Venezuela has won it for the first time. 

    It started with 16 teams in pool play earlier this month, followed by quarter-finals games, semi-final games and Tuesday night’s championship game in Miami.

    On January 3 of this year, the U.S. military carried out Operation Absolute Resolve, in which they extracted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, after decades of hostile relations between the two countries.”

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      1. Same here….I attended a baseball game in Baltimore with an MP that I was dating right after I got to Ft. Myer in 1977. It was right after Reggie Jackson had left the team in 1976 and fans were pissed. They hung him in effigy at the game so there was quite a rowdy crowd. And yet…..I fell asleep in the 7th inning! Nope, baseball is NOT for me! The relationship with the MP didn’t last much longer! LOL

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