The cake is not too sweet, good enough to be eaten by itself at "elevenses", or in the evening with a night cap. It is at its best served with cream, or a mascarpone cream that goes in a tiramisu.

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Q: I love to make carrot cake. Yet, the past few times I have tried, the nuts have all gone to the bottom of the cake — as have the carrots.

As reported by cookbook author Marcy Goldman in that piece, the pan’s origins were in fact pretty humble. Around 1949, members of the Minneapolis chapter of Hadassah, a Jewish women’s group ...