Just made this cake with jaggery instead of sugar and thought I’d share it here. The cake turned out really well. The only thing I felt I should have done was to have used white jaggery. Then the beautiful colours of the ingredients would have been seen. Anyway, there’s always next time. Our daughter Ranita had made this some years ago for her Dad’s birthday and I always wanted to make an easier version of it again.  This is it, without the layers and cream cheese frosting.  Hummingbird cake is a banana-pineapple spice cake originating in Jamaica and a popular dessert in the southern United States since the 1970s  The ingredients include flour, sugar, salt, vegetable oil, ripe banana, pineapple, cinnamon, pecans, vanilla extract, eggs, and leavening agent. It is also known as Doctor Bird 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.