CAKE ORIGINS
INGREDIENTS
GEOGRAPHY & CLIMATE
HISTORY
TRADE & CULTURE
100

This cake originated in Mexico and means “Three Milks.”

What is Tres Leches Cake?

100

This ingredient gives Black Forest Cake its fruity flavor.

What are cherries?

100

This warm climate helped Tres Leches become popular in Latin America.

What is a tropical climate?

100

Carrot Cake became popular again during this war.

What is World War II?

100

This activity showed how ingredients travel around the world.

What is trade?

200

This cake comes from Germany’s Black Forest region.

What is Black Forest Cake?

200

Tres Leches Cake uses three different types of this ingredient.

What is milk?

200

This region is known for cherry orchards and forests.

What is the Black Forest region of Germany?

200

Spanish explorers helped spread this type of European cake that influenced Tres Leches.

What is sponge cake?

200

Tres Leches Cake is often served at these special events.

What are birthdays, weddings, holidays, or celebrations?

300

This cake originated in England and uses vegetables as a sweetener.

What is Carrot Cake?

300

This ingredient helped make Carrot Cake sweet during times when sugar was limited.

What are carrots?

300

This region grows much of the world’s cocoa.

What is West Africa?

300

Red Velvet Cake became famous after appearing in this 1989 movie.

What is Steel Magnolias?

300

Southern cooking is known for these types of desserts.

What are rich desserts?

400

This cake became popular in the Southern United States.

What is Red Velvet Cake?

400

These ingredients reaction originally helped create the red color in Red Velvet Cake. (3 of them)

What is cocoa powder with vinegar and buttermilk?

400

This region supplies much of the sugar used around the world.

What is the Caribbean/Brazil?

400

Black Forest Cake first became popular during this decade.

What are the 1930s?

400

This mapping activity showed that many foods rely on ingredients from different __________.

What are regions/countries?

500

This cake is also called Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte.

What is Black Forest Cake?

500

This frosting is commonly used on both Carrot Cake and Red Velvet Cake

What is cream cheese frosting?

500

Limited refrigeration in warm climates helped popularize this type of milk product.

What is canned milk?

500

During WWII, foods like sugar and butter were often this.

What is rationed?

500

This factor influences what ingredients can grow in a region.

What is climate/geography?

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