Ingredients For Hummingbird Cake. Stir in vanilla pineapple bananas and 1. Whisk together flour and next 4 ingredients in a large bowl.
According to the Jamaican Tourism Board it was originally called the Doctor Bird Cake which is a nickname for a Jamaican variety of hummingbird called the Red-billed Streamertail. The story is that the cake was named after the bird because it was sweet enough to attract hummingbirds. Add eggs and oil stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened.
Stir in vanilla pineapple bananas and 1.
Step 2 Sift together the flour sugar baking soda and salt. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F 175 degrees C. According to the Jamaican Tourism Board it was originally called the Doctor Bird Cake which is a nickname for a Jamaican variety of hummingbird called the Red-billed Streamertail. The story is that the cake was named after the bird because it was sweet enough to attract hummingbirds.