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Read the text about carrot

cake.

Mixing vegetables and dessert might sound strange. But carrot cake shows how this combination can really work! Bakers started adding carrots to cakes hundreds of years ago when sugar cost a lot of money. As one of the sweetest vegetables, carrots helped sweeten baked goods. In England during World War II, it was hard to get sugar. So, people there started making even more carrot cake.
The carrot cake we eat today is still sweet and usually has cream cheese frosting. But carrots aren't the only vegetable that people add to baked goods. Clever bakers make everything from beet brownies to sweet potato cookies! Only time will tell if these treats will be as well loved as the carrot cake.

Why did people add carrots to cake hundreds of years ago?

They didn't want their cakes to be sweet.

It made the cakes healthy.

It cost a lot of money to buy sugar.

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Read the text about carrot

cake.

Mixing vegetables and dessert might sound strange. But carrot cake shows how this combination can really work! Bakers started adding carrots to cakes hundreds of years ago when sugar cost a lot of money. As one of the sweetest vegetables, carrots helped sweeten baked goods. In England during World War II, it was hard to get sugar. So, people there started making even more carrot cake.
The carrot cake we eat today is still sweet and usually has cream cheese frosting. But carrots aren't the only vegetable that people add to baked goods. Clever bakers make everything from beet brownies to sweet potato cookies! Only time will tell if these treats will be as well loved as the carrot cake.

Why did people add carrots to cake hundreds of years ago?

It made the cakes healthy.

It cost a lot of money to buy sugar.

They didn't want their cakes to be sweet.

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Look at the text in bold below. It tells you why people added carrots to cake hundreds of years ago.

Mixing vegetables and dessert might sound strange. But carrot cake shows how this combination can really work! Bakers started adding carrots to cakes hundreds of years ago when sugar cost a lot of money. As one of the sweetest vegetables, carrots helped sweeten baked goods. In England during World War II, it was hard to get sugar. So, people there started making even more carrot cake.

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