Carrot Cake/ Cupcake Recipe - Foxy Folksy (2024)

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Why are cupcakes called 1234? ›

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.

First Published Pound Cake Recipe

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.

Most of its flavor comes from brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and carrots. Ginger adds the most delicious zing, but it isn't overpowering at all. The cake is dense, but each forkful tastes super soft and extra lush.

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Muffins never have frosting on them, so it's the quickest way to tell them apart from cupcakes. Then there's our red velvet cupcake, made with a cocoa and buttermilk sponge and topped with our signature cream cheese and lime juice frosting.

I was wrong. Elvis Presley Cake is actually a moist pineapple and pecan cake that Elvis' grandmother used to make. The story goes that he requested it every time he visited her. Because tomorrow is Elvis' birthday (he would have been 81), I've decided to make it for you.

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

Bundt cake comes from the German word bundkuchen, which roughly translates into “a cake for gatherings.” Since these cakes are large enough to feed a whole crowd and look perfectly pretty for parties, we'd say it's an apt name!

I love using oil in cakes because not only does it make your cake moist, but it also STAYS moist for much longer than if you used butter. That's because oil is 100% fat where butter is around 80%.

Carrot cake (also known as passion cake) is cake that contains carrots mixed into the batter.

What country invented carrot cake? ›

Carrot cake is thought to have originated in England where housewives used sweet products (e.g carrots) to naturally sweeten their confections during World War II.

Slater was a judge on the pilot, and on her website's FAQs, answers the question that, apparently I'm not the only one asking: “My grandpa wanted to know what we did with all those cupcakes. The ones that didn't go to the Alma Awards were eaten by the cast and crew. Yeah, that's right.

What were cupcakes called in the past? Back in the day, they were called “Number Cakes” or “1234 Cakes”. This was because the recipes back then were simply 1 cup of butter, 2 cups of sugar, 3 cups of flour, 4 eggs, 1 cup of milk, and 1 spoonful of baking soda.

Twelve Cupcakes was fined $119,500 on 12 January 2021 for its offences. Separately on 29 December 2020, co-founders Ong and Teo were charged for offences related to underpayment and non-payment of salaries between 2012 and 2016. Teo pleaded guilty on 4 February 2021, and was fined $65,000 on 9 March.