When the book Sweeter Side of Amy’s Bread
first came to print, I was on my cookbook diet then I was saving up to by a
Macbook. So I convinced myself that I didn’t need another cookbook. However,
every now and then, I found myself searching online for recipes from this book
and whenever I find wander through the aisle of my local bookstore, I kept
looking longingly on it, kept checking to see if its finally on sale. Finally
got fed up with the waiting game, I saved up and luckily just in time for the
annual sale J How cool is that? It took me a few months of
saving and a few years of putting it off and now I got a copy of the book.
Being a huge sucker for girly looking cake,
you’d think the first thing I would try is the pink swirly frosted cake.
Nope…the carrot cake got my attention. I must admit this is my first carrot
cake that I bake…ever! Being in a household of chocoholics, I most often make
anything with chocolate in it. Always fearing that my family wouldn’t eat it
and my effort would be all for nothing. As my little brother grew older, I
started baking non-chocolate sweets like blueberry muffins, banana breads,
lemon torte… At first, they were not appreciated but then when I told my little
brother that I will only bake once a week and only if the item that I made the
week before is gone. At first he was hesitant but little by little he gives in
and tries whatever I make. He now eats blueberries and even my lemon torte is
quite popular with my family.
Now back to the star of this post Carrot
Cake, as I was hand grating the carrots I kept asking myself why am I doing
this again? What’s so special about this? My answer was because I want to! J That’s the
only thing that is time consuming in this whole process, after that it was easy
kind of like making a muffin, where all the wet ingredients are mixed first,
then the dry and lastly combine them together. An odd thing I noticed that my
cake looks kind of orangey, I don’t think they are suppose to look like that
but then it still taste ok, a bit on the dry side though.
What I love in this age of technology with
the variety of social networking within our reach, I was able to contact the
author and ask her idea what might have happened. Sure enough she said maybe I
overcooked it. Next time I’m going
to try this again and try to take it out of the oven few minutes earlier than
what I did with this one. Though I
forgot to ask her about the cake’s coloring…oh well there is always a next
time.
While eating this you can delude yourself by saying that its healthier but then again with the thick luscious duvet of cream cheese frosting I would say not so much but still it taste good!
Great way to frost the icing.
ReplyDeleteoo very beautiful, i love your frosting! and yes i like to pretend carrot cake is healthy too but...we all know the frosting makes it! :)
ReplyDeletethat cake looks sooo good!!!
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