text:  with essentially enough sugar in there to put an entire colony of carpenter ants into shock. It's a very, very, very sweet cake. I love it. I love it. I'm not saying that negatively. I love it. And the name of hummingbird cake, it's called that because apparently there's so much sugar in it that if you eat an entire piece, your heart starts fluttering like the wings of a hummingbird. Oh, my goodness.