The other day, Youngest Hawthorne was watching
some lame Food Network challenge
which apparently inspired him to ask me to make him a cake.
"What kind of cake?"
"Zucchini," he said.
"I have no zucchini. Pick something else."
"Banana ... No ... carrot."
So, carrot cake it is.
$$$$ shot:
Tell me your mouth isn't watering.
Rosie's Carrot Cake
3 eggs
3/4 cup buttermilk
3/4 cup oil (I used canola.)
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp cinnamon
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
pinch salt
2 cups carrots, grated
1 cup coconut
1 cup crushed pineapple with juice
1 cup raisins
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and flour 7 x 11 baking dish.
Sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
In large bowl, mix eggs, buttermilk, oil, sugar, and vanilla.
Add flour mixture to egg mixture and mix well.
Add grated carrots, coconut, pineapple, and raisins.
Pour into prepared pan and bake for 1 hour.
Let cool, then frost.
Frosting
1 stick butter, softened
1 package cream cheese, softened
2 cups powdered sugar
2 TB vanilla
Mix all together.
Combine sifted dry ingredients in small bowl:
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
pinch salt
Combine ingredients in large bowl:
3 eggs
3/4 cup buttermilk
3/4 cup oil
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 tsp vanilla
Rest of ingredients:
2 cups grated carrots
1 cup crushed pineapple with juice
1 cup coconut
1 cup raisins
Wet ingredients on top left.
Sifted dry ingredients top right.
And pineapple, grated carrots, cinnamon, and raisins.
Here's my prepared pan
and here's
Rosie's Tip #218:
When a recipe calls for you to butter and flour
your baking dish or cake pan,
I like to add a little extra flavor.
In this case I mixed my flour with cinnamon.
If I'm making a chocolate cake,
then I'd add cocoa powder to the flour.
Look how moist this cake is.
On to my icing.
Instead of the recipe above,
I used 3/4 stick butter,
3/4 package cream cheese,
and 1 cup sugar.
I only had a partial package of cream cheese
so I had to adapt.
And, horror of horrors,
I had NO confectioner's sugar,
or as Pauler would call it, confectionate sugar.
So I had to improvise.
Cream cheese frosting is some kind of drug. I think it's the Rx for anorexia.
ReplyDeleteMommy, woould you make me a Tres Leches cake too? You know I hate to bake.
Learned something new today, didn't know you could make powdered sugar that way. Thanks Rosie!
ReplyDeleteAnony, it's not exactly powdered,
ReplyDeletebut it's a close second. Works in a pinch.
zzzadig, if you're a very good boy,
ReplyDeleteMommie may make you a tres Leches cake. Consider it a Just Ask Rosie Challenge. ;)