Carrot Cake/ Cupcake Recipe - Foxy Folksy (2024)

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How did Pound Cake get its name? ›

The original recipe was essentially a cake that was made from a pound of flour, a pound of sugar, a pound of butter, and a pound of eggs. This is actually where the pound cake received it's name. Each ingredient added to the cake weighed one pound.

I love the way carrot brings moisture and density to a cake, and how you can compliment its sweetness with different warming spices and dried fruits or nuts. Ordinarily, I use Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's recipe from his River Cottage Everyday cookbook when I get a hankering for carrot cake.

The cake baked in a tea cup on the programme was actually a queen's cake, a much older type of cake than the cupcake. So let me deal with the queen cake first. Queen cakes were traditionally baked in tin pans which were made in a great variety of shapes, as in the print below.

Before it's served, you'll add a layer of cream cheese frosting and sprinkle candied pecans on top for some crunch. Internet lore would have you believe this pineapple-topped concoction was Elvis Presley's favorite cake, that he even asked his grandmother to make it for him as a kid.

Chocolate Madeira cake layered with vanilla buttercream, covered with chocolate buttercream, Cadbury's chocolate fingers, maltesers and Green & Black's white chocolate.

In later years, when the use of volume measurements was firmly established in American home kitchens, these recipes became known as 1234 cakes or quarter cakes, so called because they are made up of four ingredients: one cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, and four eggs.

These delicious treats go by this name because of their size, which is small enough for a fairy to eat. However, a version of “butterfly cakes” is a design that has wings on top of the cupcakes. Similar to a butterfly or a fairy's wings!

The Hostess CupCake was first sold on May 10, 1919. According to author Andrew F. Smith, it was the first commercially produced cupcake, originally produced by the Taggart Bakery as the Chocolate Cup Cake.

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It is also worth noting that the “Pound Cake” is now known by many names; “Madeira Cake” or “Yellow Cake” even simply “Loaf Cake”. No matter what it's called, one thing is for sure! The simple sponge cake recipe has stood the test of time and remained a staple for home baking!

Does a pound cake weigh a pound? ›

Given that one pound of ingredients was called for in those recipes, a true pound cake would weigh about four pounds total.

Cake by the pound (n.) A double entendre: Cake is both a food product and a slang term for butts, both of which are prominently featured on Instagram – as is the pound symbol, which is used to make hashtags. "And every girl in here got to look me up and down, all on Instagram, cake by the pound." – "Yoncé"