Evening Under the Stars - Pie & Cakes Virtual Auction

A Southern favorite, the Hummingbird Cake contains more fruit than flour.  Chock full of pecans, bananas and pineapple, then robed in cream cheese frosting, every bite promises a super moist tropical treat.  Thought to hail from Jamaica, originally, it was called the “Doctor bird cake”, a nickname for a Jamaican variety of hummingbird called the Red-billed Streamertail. The name came from the way the bird’s long beak probes flowers, like a doctor inspecting a patient. So what does that have to do with a pineapple and banana cake? Some say the cake was named after the bird because it was sweet enough to attract hummingbirds (who eat only nectar), while others say the yellow streaks of banana was reminiscent of the bird’s plumage. Either way, the Doctor bird took flight.  Of course it took a Southerner to shorten the name.  Ya'll hurry on up and grab this one!