Betty Campbell-Adams, who with her husband — and the help of his Caribbean grandmother’s secret carrot cake recipe — founded Lloyd’s Carrot Cake, a Bronx institution that has become internationally renowned for its New York delicacy, died on Dec. 11 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. She was 65. The story of Lloyd’s Carrot Cake, which occupies a little storefront in Riverdale that emits wafts of ambrosial aromas, is a tale of humble beginnings, lots of cinnamon and butter, and family and heartbreak. “People are always anxious to tell you how far they’ve come to get this cake, who told them about Lloyd’s Carrot Cake and where they’re taking it to,” she told The Riverdale Press in 2016. “Over and over, I’ve heard people come in and say: ‘Listen, I don’t like carrot cake. I’ve never eaten carrot cake,’” she told WCBS-TV in New York this year.

Source: New York Times December 28, 2020 03:11 UTC