«Hummingbird» cake for a birthday party

Steps

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  1. Sift the flour into a dry dish. Add sugar, baking powder and cinnamon. Mix the dry ingredients with a whisk.
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  2. Mash a large and ripe banana into a puree with a fork in a deep dish.
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  3. Cut into cubes rings of a canned pineapple.
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  4. Add the crushed pineapple together with the juice to the bowl with the banana.
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  5. Beat three eggs into the fruit mix , pour with vegetable oil.
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  6. Mix the resulting mass.
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  7. Add the mix portionwise to the dry mixture.
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  8. Mix until homogenious dough.
• 9. Lay the baking form with a parchment (diameter 18-20 cm).
• 10. Divide the prepared dough into four parts. It is more convenient to use scales for accuracy. Take about 375 g of the dough to each cake.
• 11. Put one portion of the dough into the baking tray. Send it to the oven, previously spreading it with a spatula.
• 12. Bake for 15-20 minutes at 180 degrees.
  
• 13. In this manner bake four cakes. Cool them on a grill.
• 14. Wrap each cake into a cling film and put into the refrigerator for at least 1 hour or longer.
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  15. To make custard, beat soft butter and fine sugar powder with a mixer until soft mousse.
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  16. Add cottage cheese, again beat the ingredients into soft mousse with a mixer. You can make it multicolored by adding food colorants.
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  17. Assemble the cake, spreading the custard over the cooled cakes.
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  18. Melt the chopped into pieces black chocolate in a water bath. Add a piece of butter. While stirring, wait till it melts and the glaze becomes smooth.
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  19. Pour the top layer of the cake with a warm glaze.
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  20. Decorate the cake using fruit, berries, whipped cream, chocolate, marshmallows or fresh flowers.
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  21. Bon appetit!