How the year of birth affects the choice of dessert: favorite cakes of different generations

Fashion affects the choice of anything, including desserts. Meet the statistics showing which cakes were the most popular in the world in recent decades. Perhaps your favorite dessert is associated with some particular period of the past?

Fiftieth: chocolate cake

This simple and delicious culinary novelty, like many similar products, became popular almost immediately after the appearance. In 1957 this recipe was already widely met in the newspapers. Everyone who loves the sweet, chose a chocolate cake! No wonder, since a rich cream and a wet biscuit with cocoa are really very appetizing.

Sixties: biscuit with champagne

In the sixties, a biscuit with pink champagne was considered an elite of desserts. Light, airy texture, which helps to achieve egg whites, provides a recipe for its popularity. They are preparing it now!

1966: biscuit with filling

Ella Hellfric did not become the winner of the national baking competition in the US, but her recipe became known to thousands of people. As a result, that year the best dessert was exactly her biscuit with melted chocolate filling.

1968: cakes with impregnation

This cake was prepared with a different cream, sour cream or coffee, the essence was in a wet soaked biscuit. The recipe has become so famous that many people like to cook it now.

1970-1975: carrot cake

In the early seventies, it was popular to take care of health, fashion also touched desserts. Carrot cakes, full of vegetables, nuts and raisins, were considered a useful alternative to traditional chocolate and vanilla desserts.

1976: Watergate cake

Cake "Watergate", like the salad of the same name, demonstrates that people liked thematic desserts then, and pistachios were associated with Nixon. The recipe suggested a combination of pistachios and puddings. It was so popular that in stores now and then the nuts came to an end!

1977: rum cake

Ah, rum! It suits not only for cocktails and jokes about pirates. Alcohol is added to pastries from the nineteenth century, but really such desserts became popular in the late seventies, when the president of the Roma company offered his marketers to create a recipe that would require this drink.

1978-1979: Cake "Kolibri"

This cake of mashed bananas with cinnamon has become very popular due to the simplicity of cooking. It is interesting that the recipe was invented in order to popularize travel to Jamaica.

1980-1981: cake with chocolate fondant

This dense chocolate cake with a thick layer of sweets was so popular that it was even considered a legacy for future generations in 1981. Interestingly, the recipe appeared in the hostel of the American University, where desserts were banned, and the students themselves cooked a sweet from melted chocolate and butter. Thus, fondness sends us to student rebellion.

1982-1983: Robert Redford Cake

If there is a true measure of success, it's when in your honor they call two desserts. It happened with actor Robert Redford, extremely popular in the eighties. A cake with chocolate and hazelnuts with a thick chocolate cream was created in honor of the actor in New York. Now his name is often associated with a layer of pudding.

1984: Apple cake

In 1984, the winner of the baking contest presented a revolutionary recipe, in which apples were combined with a mixture of whiskey, cinnamon and brown sugar under vanilla glaze, all on a biscuit. Some supplemented the recipe with caramel.

1985-1987: chocolate cake from Mississippi

In the eighties people loved the scale in everything, and desserts were no exception. Therefore, among popular was and a rich chocolate cake with a glaze of marshmallows and crushed nuts.

1988-1989: a layered chocolate cake

The end of the eighties was also characterized by a continuation of chocolate: the best was a chocolate cake with many layers, prepared with whipped cream, brown sugar and pecans. Top cake was supposed to be decorated with whipped cream, chocolate and another portion of nuts.

1990: stunning cake

This unusual cake was popular immediately under a variety of names, the essence of any of which described something outstanding. Two recipes were distributed: the first represented a biscuit with vanilla, nuts and pineapple, and the other was a chocolate cake with caramel and condensed milk, decorated with chopped candy.

1991-1992: cake with melted chocolate

A chocolate cake with a liquid center became incredibly popular in the early nineties. The thing is that then it started to be cooked in Michelin restaurants. Now the recipe is so common that such a dessert is served even in restaurants of fast food! You can easily cook it at home.

1993-1995: cake-skirt for Barbie

In the early nineties, a party for children was impossible without a cake decorated with a doll. It was such a common recipe that it was cooked even by popular culinary specialists. However, many children are delighted with this dessert and now.

1996: cake with custard

This cake became the official dessert of Massachusetts in 1996. It can be called a pie, but still, given that this is a layered biscuit, it's more like a cake.

1997-1999: Cake with Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola is an extremely popular drink, it's no wonder that sooner or later the world has a dessert with its use. It existed from the middle of the twentieth century, but became really popular only in the late nineties, it began to be cooked even in a cafe.

2000's: Vanilla Cappueca

Vanilla cupcakes with a dense pink glaze on top were so popular that they were shown even in the TV series "Sex and the City". The series has long ended, and vanilla cupcakes never lost their charm.

2001-2004: cake with condensed milk

This dessert is a biscuit with milky impregnation and whipped cream. It exists for a long time, but the real popularity was received only at the beginning of zero. This dessert was even more popular than tiramisu! With such a taste even created a sort of ice cream!

2005-2006: Cappuccino from the Sprinkles Cafe

Just a few months after the opening, baking from this cafe has already become famous all over the world. The queues stood all along the length of the street, and all for the sake of trying cupcakes!

2007: Texas cake

It was an extremely popular recipe: the combination of pecans and chocolate is really incredibly successful. Cake is not the only form of dessert, there is also a portion version in the form of cupcakes.

2008-2009: multilayer cake

This cake represents from eight to ten thin layers of a biscuit, each of which is smeared with a cream. At the top of the dessert is covered with delicious chocolate fondant.

2012: rainbow cake

Multicolored desserts became popular very recently, apparently, all of a sudden I wanted to try a rainbow. This recipe will take a lot of food coloring!

2013-2015: dessert "Red velvet"

It is such a popular dessert that now there are even candles with such a smell, as well as many recipes for other dishes inspired by this cake. You can even cook chicken in this style!

2016: Cheesecake "Unicorn"

The rainbow trend has not disappeared for a long time, in the past year it has appeared in the form of a cheesecake. Similar desserts are in the restaurant menus, in different cafes, in popular magazines, it's just everywhere. The multi-colored curd base is supplemented with a sprinkling of different shades to make the dessert look even more unusual and colorful. However, it is difficult to say whether this taste improves.