*Cream-cheese frosting on carrot cake didn’t become popular until the 1960s.
*National Carrot Cake Day is February 3.
*If the baking soda has a strange reaction it can turn carrots green or blue in the cake. It’s still safe to eat.
*Carrots not only sweeten the cake but they also make it denser and moister.
*In the 1970s and 80s carrot cake was considered a health food because of its vegetable main ingredient.
*Carrot cake was a top food fad in the 1970s.
*According to Washington State Department of Agriculture, one medium carrot or a handful of baby carrots, is equivalent to one serving of your daily vegetable.
*Orange carrots are a great source of beta-carotene. Our bodies turn beta-carotene into Vitamin A – good for bones, teeth, vision, and skin.
*Baby carrots aren’t babies. They’re made from larger carrots cut by machines.
*Americans eat an average of about 10.6 pounds of fresh carrots a year.
*Carrots have more natural sugar than all other vegetables except beets.
*The recipe called “Divorce Carrot Cake” was posted in the 1970s and used honey instead of sugar.
*Many people make carrot cake bread, cupcakes, and cookies.
*In the Middle Ages, carrots were used as a sweetener because sugar was hard-to-get and so expensive that only the wealthy and royalty could afford it.
*Carrot cake was “married” to rich, cream-cheese frosting in the 1960s.
*In 1814, Antoine Beauvilliers (former chef to King Louis XVI) included a recipe for gâteau de carottes (carrot cake) in Volume 2 of his cook book, L’art du Cuisinier
*Carrot cake is often eaten at Easter celebrations.
*Brazil’s bolo de cenoura (carrot cake) is served with a chocolate topping.
*The World Carrot Museum is a website with no brick-and-mortar existence. It is run by John Stolarczyk of Shipton, England as a non-profit and contains everything you ever wanted to know about carrots, including artwork.
*Some chefs like to decorate the top of a carrot cake (over the cream-cheese frosting) with marzipan or frosting carrots.
We love carrot cake! And we love your article with all the fun facts about carrot cake. We are going to get some carrot cake and reread your article while eating carrot cake… Double carrot heaven! I cannot imagine carrot cake without the cream cheese frosting… how did folks get by without that frosting before the 1960s???