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Discover 12 delicious baked goods that happen to include vegetables. We’ll bet that many of you who aren’t vegetable lovers won’t be able to tell what’s hidden inside!
When our parents told us to eat all of our vegetables, we might have been more cooperative if they had been disguised in cakes, pies, and brownies!
Zucchini brownies? Yes! Zucchini adds moistness, texture, and nutrition to this popular dessert. And we’ll bet NO one will know they have zucchini inside!
The Best-Ever Carrot Cake is moist, rich, and topped with a tasty cream-cheese frosting. We’ve tested this reader recipe, and trust us—it’s aptly named!
Here’s a coffee cake in the tradition of Moravian sugar cake, the yeast-raised cake made from potato dough and covered with a buttery sugar topping. Our version uses pumpkin instead of potato and has an orange hue that’s quite pretty.
This sweet potato smoothie is flavored with warm spices, anti-inflammatory ginger, and nutritious sweet potato. It tastes like a sweet potato pie without all the sugar!
Managing Editor Sarah Perreault joined The Old Farmer’s Almanac in 2003. She has tons of quirky and little-known facts crammed into that brain of hers, which may be thought useless elsewhere—but not h...
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