Carrot cake is an American cake, also typical of English tradition, a dessert quite different from our carrot cake, both for the batter, which is decidedly more indulgent, and because the cake is frosted with cream cheese. The batter is very moist and brown, obtained from the use of grated carrots, chopped walnuts, and so on.

These delicious ginger-flavored cookies are synonymous with celebration in Anglo-Saxon baking tradition. Gingerbread—healthy, crunchy, and irresistible—was invented by Queen Elizabeth I of England in the 16th century to spoil her most illustrious guests. Today, it's baked for Thanksgiving and Christmas, not to mention the Epiphany stocking, in...