Honey 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.

Honey

Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of plants or the secretions of other insects, like the honeydew of aphids. This refinement takes place both within individual bees, through regurgitation and enzymatic activity, and during storage in the hive, through water evaporation that concentrates the honey's sugars until it is thick and viscous.

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.

honey

Noun

1. A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
2. A variety of this substance.

Adjective

1. Involving or resembling honey.
2. Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like most types of honey.

carrot

Noun

1. A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.
2. A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).

Verb

1. To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture.

cake

Noun

1. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
2. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.

Verb

1. Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
2. To form into a cake, or mass.