Sometimes, honey or sugar is added to the flour and water to make cakes. The first cake was sweetened by honey. Usually cakes are eaten at special festivals. Jews make cakes just before their feast of Passover. The cakes use up all the old flour that has been bought in the time before Passover. On Christmas Eve, in Germany, people bake cakes with honey and ginger spice.
Cakes often have other kinds of flour in them like ground almond paste. Sometimes dried fruit is added to the cake mixture. The cake like this is often eaten at wedding and at Christmas in Britain.