Talk:Carrot cake

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• Does anyone know how much carrot is in the carrot cake?
• I make a pretty wicked carrot cake with about three cups of shredded carrot. Wiki books has a carrot cake recipe here [1] but mine is more robust and spicier with oranges in it, too. I'm going to make a carrot cake later this week for holiday feasting, in fact! CaptainCarrot 06:56, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

• And please can someone add more history. Was it originally more carrots than its present day form? And also, do modern supermarket carrot cakes contain carrots, or just flaouring and additives?

Added some more history. --Alex 15:09, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

• Personally, I find carrot cake to be the best of all cakes.

• You mean to tell me that carrot cake actually has carrots???

Amazing.
--Cumbiagermen 05:25, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

• And on a more serious note, shouldn't this article still be a stub? --Cumbiagermen 05:28, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

• Having just made a carrot cake, I can say that for a medium size cake, 8 oz of carrots (three to four carrots) is the typical amount. I would not doubt that store bought carrot cakes do indeed have carrots, just perhaps not as many or of unsatisfactory quality.

It may also be worth noting that carrot cake is, according to Alton Brown, not actually a cake: it is a quick bread, and thus more closely resembles a muffin in texture and preparation (large, irregular crumb spacing as opposed to the cake's finer and more evenly distributed crumb).

I agree, this article seems more of a stub than not. Alex 18:44, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Beefed things up a bit. Hopefully moving out of stub territory now. --Alex 15:09, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Carrots and Flavour

The introductory paragraph in this article read that carrots do not enhance the flavour of the cake, only its texture and appearance. This is false, as one can easily tell by tasting a carrot cake, but also contradicts the later historical statement that carrots were used as sweeteners in the Middle Ages. I have tweaked the sentence in question. A moot point perhaps, but hey.