Carrot Cake

Carrot cake

Carrot cake is a cake that contains carrots mixed into the spiced batter, often topped with a rich cream cheese frosting. Carrot cake uses neutral oils like vegetable oil or canola oil instead of butter to keep it moist even when refrigerated.

Carrot

The carrot is a root vegetable in the umbellifer family Apiaceae. Carrots are typically orange in colour due to their beta-carotene content, which makes them a rich source of vitamin A. Heirloom variants may be white, yellow, red, purple, or black. They are biennial plants.

Cake

Cake is a baker's confectionery made by combining flour with a liquid, a fat or both, and usually with a leavening agent. Cakes are usually baked, but can be griddled. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate and which share features with other desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.

Shades of orange

In optics, orange has a wavelength between approximately 585 and 620 nm and a hue of 30° in HSV color space. In the RGB color space it is a secondary color numerically halfway between gamma-compressed red and yellow, as can be seen in the RGB color wheel. The complementary color of orange is azure. Orange pigments are largely in the ochre or cadmium families, and absorb mostly blue light.

carrot cake

Noun

1. A sweet cake, often iced, containing grated carrot.
2. Turnip cake; radish cake (a savoury cake containing radish, usually pan-fried).