Hummingbird cake Hummingbird cake Hummingbird cake is a banana-pineapple spice cake common in the Southern United States. Ingredients include flour, sugar, salt, vegetable oil, ripe banana, pineapple, cinnamon, pecans, vanilla extract, eggs, and leavening agent. It is often served with cream cheese frosting Created on the island of Jamaica, hummingbird cake was named after the island's national bird, where it is also known as the Doctor Bird cake (Doctor Bird is another name for the island's national bird). In 1979, the Jamaica Tourist Board exported the recipe for hummingbird cake, along with other local Jamaican recipes, in media press kits sent to
Chiffon pie whipped) be used instead of using raw whipped egg whites. This filling is then put into a pre-baked pie shell of variable composition and chilled. This same technique can also be used with canned pumpkin to produce pumpkin chiffon pie. The preparation of a mock chiffon pie can be simplified by using flavored gelatin mix and artificial whipped cream substitute. The chiffon pie was invented in Los Angeles in 1926 by Monroe Boston Strause, who was known as the Pie King. The original recipe called for beaten egg whites to be folded into a cornstarch-thickened liquid. Chiffon pie A chiffon