Fruit including pineapple, raisins and shredded coconut can also be used to add sweetness. Toasting pecans and using brown sugar can add extra flavor and moisture. Sometimes nuts such as walnuts or pecans are added into the cake batter, as well as spices such as cinnamon, ginger and ground mixed spice. Modern UK and US recipes typically feature a white cream cheese frosting. The popularity of carrot cake was revived in the United Kingdom because of the rationing during the Second World War and also because of the promotion of carrots' consumption operated by the government. According to the Culinary Heritage of Switzerland, it is one of the most popular cakes in Switzerland, especially for the birthdays of children. Īnother 19th-century recipe comes from the housekeeping school of Kaiseraugst ( Canton of Aargau, Switzerland). In 1824, Beauvilliers had published in London an English version of his cookbook which includes a recipe for "Carrot Cakes" in a literal translation of his earlier recipe. In volume two of L'art du cuisinier (1814), Antoine Beauvilliers, former chef to Louis XVI, included a recipe for a "Gâteau de Carottes", which was popular enough to be copied verbatim in competitors' cookbooks.
Variations of the carrot pudding evolved to include baking with a crust (as pumpkin pie), steamed with a sauce, or molded in pans (as plum pudding) with icing. Many food historians believe carrot cake originated from such carrot puddings eaten by Europeans in the Middle Ages, when sugar and sweeteners were expensive and many people used carrots as a substitute for sugar. Published in 1591, there is an English recipe for " pudding in a Carret root" that is essentially a stuffed carrot with meat, but it includes many elements common to the modern dessert: shortening, cream, eggs, raisins, sweetener ( dates and sugar), spices ( clove and mace), scraped carrot, and breadcrumbs (in place of flour). Carrot cake cupcakes with candied ginger icingĬarrot cake (also known as passion cake) is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter.
0 kommentar(er)
