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Apple cake was simply part of the range of Roman desserts. The most common dessert was actually a bowlful of fruit. Ancient cakes were not like today's cakes. They more like enriched bread. A proper distinction between bread and cakes developed during the Middle Ages. Ancient cakes were basic bread doughs enriched with butter, eggs and honey (sugar was not used back then and honey was the sweetener). The range of added ingredients was limited: ground hazelnuts or almonds, dried apricots or cooked apples.
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What did the poor Ancient Romans eat for breakfast?
they mostly had apple cake Apple pie Baklava cake (its more like biscuit with sugar) and Sponge cake
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cake
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Let them eat cake.
What kind of cakes did Romans eat?
The ancient Roman cakes were different from our present day cakes because they did not use the ingredients that we use. Most of them were flat cakes many times layered. They had honey cakes, cheese cakes, and a cake called "placenta" (not the modern meaning of the word) which was layered with cheese, honey and pastry -- almost like a dessert lasagna.
