September welcomes the arrival of fall, the beginning of a new school year and extracurricular activities. Serve up this every day favorite as an after school snack and delight the taste buds of your family and friends with the September Cake of the Month – Carrot Cake – only at Meijer, the original one-stop superstore. This sweet and scrumptious dessert is made with 8” split carrot layers, iced and filled with Meijer’s “Special Recipe” cream cheese icing and topped with bits of walnut and icing carrots! Carrot Cake, which is featured at all Meijer locations as the Cake of the Month for September, is priced at just $5.99 each.

Fun Facts about Carrots:

• Carrots contain more sugar than any other vegetable besides the sugar beet

• Carrots have been used in sweet cakes since the medieval period, during which time sweeteners were scarce and expensive

• Carrots have the highest content of beta carotene (vitamin A) of all vegetables

• Carrots were first grown as a medicine not a food

• In the 1960s, Viola Schlicting, from Texas, created the first carrot cake from her German carrot-nut bread recipe