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
Dutch carnival cake she did not serve the cake, she turned down his offer. Nowadays the offering of "the lovecake" is not a proposal anymore, but a token of love and appreciation between partners, family and friends. There is still a Dutch bakery that produces the Carnival Cake, and so the tradition is being continued. Dutch carnival cake The Dutch Carnival Cake, also known as "Carnival Cake" (Dutch: Kermiskoek), is traditionally a Dutch delicacy that is similar to gingerbread cake. Its old recipe holds a variety of ingredients among which are freshly harvested rye flour and freshly harvested honey from the Betuwe region,