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Hummingbird cake is a banana pineapple spice cake from the United States. Ingredients include flour sugar salt ripe banana pineapple cinnamon pecans vanilla eggs and leavening agent. It is often served with cream cheese frosting The cake has been a tradition in the Southern United States since the mid 19th century. The first known publication of the recipe was in a February 1978 edition of Southern Living by L.H. Wiggin.