When Carolynn Carreño set out to bake her mother’s wedding cake, she avoided tiers and structural risks, instead making a ...

“Raisins only enter my body accompanied by carrot cake, I assume it was the standard lol,” one wrote. “Nuts, raisins and pineapple belong in carrot cake. Sorry not sorry,” someone commented.

There were plenty of people defending Costco’s raisin-inclusive cake, with several claiming that “authentic” or “original” recipes for carrot cakes had always included the chew dried fruits.

Reed, however, thinks she knows how raisins came to be a (controversial) fixture in many carrot cake recipes in the years since. “I think that the addition of raisins maybe [comes] from the ...

(NEXSTAR) – Even people who don’t like carrots can find enjoyment in a slice of carrot cake. But if you plop some raisins into the mix, well, that’s enough to drive some people nuts.

In the following centuries, recipes for these carrot puddings began to include a number of ingredients often found in today’s carrot cakes (and, yes, sometimes currants or raisins), but they ...