Cakes
So named because of the amount of butter used in the recipe.
What is a pound cake?
Coated in cinnamon and sugar.
What are Snickerdoodles?
Granulated white sugar is made from both sugar cane and this root vegetable.
What is a sugar beet?
Someone needs to launch an investigation: a dentist created this spun sugar treat in 1897, calling it "Fairy Floss."
What is cotton candy?
Apples, peaches, and these small red berries are all part of the rose family.
What are raspberries?
Flavored with a root vegetable, it traditionally has a cream cheese frosting and warm spices.
What is a carrot cake?
Made with porridge base and dried grapes.
What are oatmeal raisin cookies?
White sugar that has been ground into a fine powder and often used as a finishing touch.
What is confectioner's sugar?
M&Ms are named for their inventors, Bruce Murrie and this fellow.
Who was Forrest Mars?
The world's most popular fruit is this red "vegetable."
What is a tomato?
Both loathed and loved, though Christmas would not be the same without someone complaining about receiving one.
What is a fruitcake?
A small indentation in the center is filled with jam.
What are thumbprint cookies?
White sugar with some molasses added to it.
What is light brown sugar?
(dark brown sugar)
A Halloween favorite, it was originally called "Chicken Feed."
What is Candy Corn?
The color was renamed for the fruit, but originally called geoluread ("yellow-red").
What is orange?
Created in Jamaica and winging its way to the southern USA in the 1960s, it has banana, pineapple, pecans, and occasionally coconut.
What is a Hummingbird cake?
These are made with coconut, so do not confuse them with the light and crispy French cookie with a similar name.
What are macaroons?
This sugar is used mostly for decorating and is often colored. It does not come from the beach, however.
What is sanding sugar?
This out-of-this-world candy bar was meant to mimic the flavor of a chocolate malted.
What is a Milky Way?
Actually, the world's most popular fruit is this one, with over 100 billion of these eaten around the world every year, mostly at breakfast time.
What are bananas?
Whipped egg whites for leavening and no added fat makes this cake heavenly for dieters, as long as you don't count the sugar content.
What is Angel Food cake?
What is biscotti?
A minimally processed cane sugar, often brown in color and used most often to sweeten beverages.
What is Turbinado sugar?
(Demerara, Sugar in the Raw)
- Yellow paper with a red stripe around the middle has been the wrapper for this peanut butter and molasses candy for over 100 years.
What are Mary Janes?
The Musee de la Fraise in Wepion, Belgium is dedicated to this sweet red fruit.
What are strawberries?