Friday, July 25, 2008

Cake Time

Everyone loves cake. It celebrates joyous times like weddings and birthdays. It 's there eif you need a good friend. It's a part of everyday life, probably the highlight of our lives. After all what's not to like about it?

Cake has been around since the Vikings who invented it The name comes from kaka meaning a flour baked confection laden with eggs and some kind of sweetener such as honey or sugar. The Romans introduced the world to fruit cakes around the time of the Renaissance and these were imported to Britain. Iced cakes made their appearance at the court of the Louis. The 19th Century brought in new technologies such as baking powder and more temperature controlled ovens.

There are so many different kinds of cake today from carrot to butter. It's just a highlight in anyone's life.

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