Homemade Hummingbird Nectar
Recipe

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Making nectar is simple and so rewarding. I love watching them, as most people do. Help them out by making your own homemade hummingbird food (no preservatives).

You can add pure strawberry juice or beet juice for color, or just leave the nectar natural and purchase a red feeder; which are found everywhere. I use a red feeder so I do not have to color the sugar water.

NECTAR

1 cup of white sugar
4 cups water
beet juice for coloring (optional)

Boil water and sugar until sugar dissolves. Cool. Add enough food coloring to make liquid medium pink.




HOMEMADE HUMMINGBIRD CAKE RECIPE (for us)

3 cups flour
2 cups white sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
3 eggs, beaten
1 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp homemade pure vanilla extract
1 (8 oz.) can crushed pineapple, undrained
2 cups banana, chopped
1 cup of walnuts or pecans, chopped

PREHEAT the oven to 350 degrees and you need three 9" cake pans; greased well and floured.

Sift together flour, sugar, salt, soda and cinnamon. Add eggs, and oil and stir. Stir in vanilla, pineapple, bananas and pecans. Spoon batter into 3 well greased and floured 9 inch cake pans.

Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cakes come out clean. Cool in pans on a rack 10 minutes. Turn cake out of pans. Frost between layers stack. Then frost top and sides. This gets me humming....

HUMMINGBIRD FROSTING:

1 (8 oz.) pkg cream cheese, softened
2 cups homemade powdered sugar, sifted
1/4 cup softened homemade unsalted butter
2 tsp homemade pure vanilla extract
1 cup pecans, chopped

Combine all ingredients until fluffy, frost cake and garnish as desired.

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