Hummingbird Cake

I love you, son

I love you more. Now, that's enough messing around, son. Let's get started on our hummingbird cake

Jamie's mashing me up four bananas. Son, I need for you to measure out three cups of all-purpose flour

Poker-dokery. A teaspoon of soda. A teaspoon of cinnamon

I'm going to start beating up my ingredients, which is two sticks of butter

So, Jamie, you're also going to need to add a teaspoon of salt. And I'm going to measure out two cups of sugar

And you need to just drain that can of pineapple and add that to the bananas

All right, so I'm just going to cream this together. The bananas and the pineapple, y'all, make this so moist

You know, if you actually make it a couple of days in advance, it's just going to get nothing but better

I was supposed to drain that, I bet. Yeah, I said drain it. Jamie has never listened to me his whole life

Not draining the pineapple is not as bad as grabbing an extra towel

I'll tell you that. I'm hurting. So what we'll do now is we will cut back on our buttermilk because we have so much liquid from the pineapple

So cut that back to like a third of a cup. And that'll make up the liquid

All right, sonny boy, if you'd crack me an egg at the time and put it in that bowl

And the reason we're going to do that is we're going to check and make sure that egg is okay

And we're just going to add those one at the time. Get all that goodness down

Yeah it all right go ahead Go ahead gourd Gourdhead All right now how many is that It five You have put five eggs in my cake

All we need is four. Oh, the butter. You have put all the juice from the pineapple

If this doesn't turn out, it is not my fault. It's going to be awesome. Now, would you take that spatula and run it around that bowl, please

What we're going to do now is we're going to add our dry ingredients with our wet ingredients

we're going to start with flour and end with flour. Okey-dokey. It makes a smoother cake batter

Okay. All right, so let's put a little buttermilk. This is not a recipe you made a lot when we were kids

I used to make them once in a while, especially at Christmas time

We really don't have much liquid to add to it. Well, we got this

That's liquid. Yeah. Alright, so that finishes off our wet and our dry

So you want to measure me out about a tablespoon. You can just eyeball it at this point, son

because that's kind of the way you've done my whole recipe. This is my kind of bacon

I'm on it. That's what I'm talking about. Alright, pour in your pineapple

and your banana. All right. Alrighty, so I'm gonna just slip that mixer out

and let you finish just folding that in. Now, I tell you, Jamie

I can't stand to see a cake with a big old thick layer and a big old thin layer Measure the batter out

Now I'm just going to bang those pans around and get those air bubbles out

All right, so Sonny Boy, let's get this in the oven. Y'all, we're going to bake this

on 350 for 25 to 35 minutes. We're going to call it the Miracle Cake

Hold on. Hold on. I'm going to just do a little something, something

We are putting a little parchment paper, y'all, around our cake dish

To keep the dish clean. To keep the dish clean. So to make our frosting, I've got two sticks of softened butter

two eight-ounce packages of cream cheese. You want a cream, son? Sure

And while you're doing that, I'm going to add a tablespoon of lemon juice

Because hummingbirds like lemons. I know they do. And cream cheese. You can see them around the cream tree bushes in my house

Listen, they are, I can't get them off my cream cheese bushes

All right, a tablespoon of vanilla. Nothing a hummingbird likes better than vanilla

All right. We'll change spots. I'm going to add. Can't have too much powdered sugar

Oh, good. My thumb is just killing me. I am so sorry

I wish I'd have told you to grab some towels. Oh, I did, didn't I

Yes. Oh, perfect, son. All right Nat if you would swap places with me Okie doke I want you to just chop me a little bit of those pecans All right How much do you need Mom

About a cup? The more nuts, the better. Now, while you're doing that, I'm going to start icing the cake

Doesn't that look good? Mm-hmm. A couple of more. We cannot both ice this cake

No! I guess we'll both ice it. I'm not going to have enough ice in it

It don't matter, Kate. Look at this. Oh, my God, what a mess

What an excellent job. Oh, my gosh. What? What? Wait. Coconut

All right, wait. Don't even look like it. Are we going to put this on the sides? Are we going to put it on the sides

Yes, don't even. Okay. I'm going to help you. No, Jamie, I don't like the way you have

Mom, I'm going to help you. You like it. No, I don't

Look how perfect that is. Seek hands

Yes, but now just on the top. Look at that. It's going to do this first

Okay. Don't matter. You ready to cut it, Mom? Yes, I'm ready

I'm so ready to cut it. I'm so ready for you to go home. Sounds good to me

Look at that. Never doubt it. So tell me if it was worth it

No, let me tell you if it was worth it. That's good

You know, white and boring. It was worth it. Thank you