Caraway seed cake Caraway seed cake Seed cake is a traditional British cake flavoured with caraway or other flavourful seeds. Caraway seeds have been long used in British cookery, and at one time caraway-seed biscuits were prepared to mark the end of the sowing of the spring wheat. These particular biscuits later evolved into this distinctively flavoured tea cake. James Matterer reports that recipes for seed cake are found in A.W.'s "Book of Cookrye" (1591) and "The English Huswife" by Gervase Markham (1615). The cake was popular in the 1700s, and through the Victorian era. Recipes for it are included in many early
Pound cake use of different shapes and sizes of tins, a wide variety of traditional German cakes are made. For example, this dough or a minor variation of it is often used to make cakes made in a loaf tin ("Orangenkuchen" - orange cake; "Nußkuchen"- hazelnut cake), marbled cakes in a bundt tin ("Marmorkuchen" ) and other flavor combinations in shaped tins "(Falscher" "Rehrücken" - fake venison saddle with bitter chocolate and almonds , "Osterlamm" - Easter Lamb with vanilla and rum). Pound cake Pound cake refers to a type of cake traditionally made with a pound of each of four ingredients: