Do you really know!!!

CAKES!!!

1. The first cupcakes were so called, in the late 19th century, because they were baked in cups and made from ingredients measured by the cupful.

2. In the Middle Ages, the word cake meant a flat round of bread baked hard on both sides.

3. The anatomical term placenta is the Latin for cake. The placenta was named for its flat shape.

4. The earliest mention of a cup cake was in 1796 in American Cookery by Amelia Simmons..

5. The world record for cupcake eating is 72 in six minutes and was set by Patrick Bertoletti in 2012..

6. The record for fruit cake eating is 4lb 14.25oz in 10 minutes, set by Sonya Thomas in 2003..

7. Assumption Abbey in Missouri is the worlds only trappist monastery that sells fruit cake on the internet

8. A VAT tribunal in 1991 ruled that Jaffa Cakes are cakes not biscuits..

9. For tax purposes, the essential difference between cakes and biscuits is that cakes go hard when stale but biscuits go soft..

10. According to an old English superstition, putting a fruit cake under your pillow would make you dream about the person you will marry..

ICE-CREAMS!!!

1. The new flavour was designed with the Marley family and consists of banana, caramel, cookies and chocolate. Proceeds go to charity.

2. The average American eats 26 litres (45.8 pints) of ice-cream a year.

3. Worldwide, around 15 billion litres (3.3 billion gallons) of ice-cream are consumed every year, enough to fill 5,000 Olympic swimming pools.

4. According to Nasa, ice-cream is among the top three items most missed by astronauts on space missions. The others are pizza and fizzy drinks.

5. Hawaii and Wisconsin are the only US states with laws governing ice-cream container size GETTY Ben and Jerry's new flavour was designed by the Marley family The last thing Elvis Presley ate was four scoops of ice-cream and six chocolate chip cookies

6. When Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield went into business as Ben & Jerry, they chose ice-cream as bagel-making equipment was too expensive.

7. The last thing Elvis Presley ate was four scoops of ice-cream and six chocolate chip cookies.

8. On June 13, 1789, George Washington became the first US president to eat ice-cream.

9. The earliest known reference to ice-cream in English was in 1672.

10. The world record for ice-cream eating is 1.75 US gallons (11.66 UK pints) in eight minutes

11. If ice-cream touches the roof of your mouth it causes brain-freez.

12. Ice-cream cools you down after a tough, hot sport.

SURE YOU ARE WOWED RIGHT...

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Do you really know!!!

CAKES!!!

1. The first cupcakes were so called, in the late 19th century, because they were baked in cups and made from ingredients measured by the cupful.

2. In the Middle Ages, the word cake meant a flat round of bread baked hard on both sides.

3. The anatomical term placenta is the Latin for cake. The placenta was named for its flat shape.

4. The earliest mention of a cup cake was in 1796 in American Cookery by Amelia Simmons..

5. The world record for cupcake eating is 72 in six minutes and was set by Patrick Bertoletti in 2012..

6. The record for fruit cake eating is 4lb 14.25oz in 10 minutes, set by Sonya Thomas in 2003..

7. Assumption Abbey in Missouri is the worlds only trappist monastery that sells fruit cake on the internet

8. A VAT tribunal in 1991 ruled that Jaffa Cakes are cakes not biscuits..

9. For tax purposes, the essential difference between cakes and biscuits is that cakes go hard when stale but biscuits go soft..

10. According to an old English superstition, putting a fruit cake under your pillow would make you dream about the person you will marry..

ICE-CREAMS!!!

1. The new flavour was designed with the Marley family and consists of banana, caramel, cookies and chocolate. Proceeds go to charity.

2. The average American eats 26 litres (45.8 pints) of ice-cream a year.

3. Worldwide, around 15 billion litres (3.3 billion gallons) of ice-cream are consumed every year, enough to fill 5,000 Olympic swimming pools.

4. According to Nasa, ice-cream is among the top three items most missed by astronauts on space missions. The others are pizza and fizzy drinks.

5. Hawaii and Wisconsin are the only US states with laws governing ice-cream container size GETTY Ben and Jerry's new flavour was designed by the Marley family The last thing Elvis Presley ate was four scoops of ice-cream and six chocolate chip cookies

6. When Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield went into business as Ben & Jerry, they chose ice-cream as bagel-making equipment was too expensive.

7. The last thing Elvis Presley ate was four scoops of ice-cream and six chocolate chip cookies.

8. On June 13, 1789, George Washington became the first US president to eat ice-cream.

9. The earliest known reference to ice-cream in English was in 1672.

10. The world record for ice-cream eating is 1.75 US gallons (11.66 UK pints) in eight minutes

11. If ice-cream touches the roof of your mouth it causes brain-freez.

12. Ice-cream cools you down after a tough, hot sport.

SURE YOU ARE WOWED RIGHT...