CAKE ORIGINS
This cake originated in Mexico and means “Three Milks.”
What is Tres Leches Cake?
This ingredient gives Black Forest Cake its fruity flavor.
What are cherries?
This warm climate helped Tres Leches become popular in Latin America.
What is a tropical climate?
Carrot Cake became popular again during this war.
What is World War II?
This activity showed how ingredients travel around the world.
What is trade?
This cake comes from Germany’s Black Forest region.
What is Black Forest Cake?
Tres Leches Cake uses three different types of this ingredient.
What is milk?
This region is known for cherry orchards and forests.
What is the Black Forest region of Germany?
Spanish explorers helped spread this type of European cake that influenced Tres Leches.
What is sponge cake?
Tres Leches Cake is often served at these special events.
What are birthdays, weddings, holidays, or celebrations?
This cake originated in England and uses vegetables as a sweetener.
What is Carrot Cake?
This ingredient helped make Carrot Cake sweet during times when sugar was limited.
What are carrots?
This region grows much of the world’s cocoa.
What is West Africa?
Red Velvet Cake became famous after appearing in this 1989 movie.
What is Steel Magnolias?
Southern cooking is known for these types of desserts.
What are rich desserts?
This cake became popular in the Southern United States.
What is Red Velvet Cake?
These ingredients reaction originally helped create the red color in Red Velvet Cake. (3 of them)
What is cocoa powder with vinegar and buttermilk?
This region supplies much of the sugar used around the world.
What is the Caribbean/Brazil?
Black Forest Cake first became popular during this decade.
What are the 1930s?
This mapping activity showed that many foods rely on ingredients from different __________.
What are regions/countries?
This cake is also called Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte.
What is Black Forest Cake?
This frosting is commonly used on both Carrot Cake and Red Velvet Cake
What is cream cheese frosting?
Limited refrigeration in warm climates helped popularize this type of milk product.
What is canned milk?
During WWII, foods like sugar and butter were often this.
What is rationed?
This factor influences what ingredients can grow in a region.
What is climate/geography?