3 February 2009
National Carrot uh...Cake Day!
So some places say its National Carrot Day, other places have it marked as National Carrot Cake Day. Either way this orange (or yellow or white) root vegetable scores in my book!
To commemorate I give you a recipe for super-delicious carrot cake!
Ingredients:
12.5 oz unbleached all purpose flour (2 1/2 cups)
1/2 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon cardamom
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 pound carrots, grated
9 oz sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups oil
Frosting
16 oz cream cheese, softened
4 tablespoons butter, softened (none of that margarine here!)
1 vanilla bean
2 tablespoons plain yogurt (plain! not vanilla!)
2 cups powdered sugar
2 tablespoons mexican vanilla (from mexico people, not the stuff you get at the grocery store)
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare a 9 × 13 pan with cooking spray and parchment paper. (Believe me, you’ll want the parchment paper.)
2. Whisk together the dry stuff (except the sugars).
3. Mix (beat) together the sugar and eggs until thoroughly mixed.
4. If you’re using a mixer (which you should) slowly add the oil to the egg/sugar mixture in a steady stream. Mix until thoroughly combined.
5. Stop the mixer and stir in the grated carrots by hand.
6. Stir in the dry stuff a little at a time until thoroughly mixed.
7. Pour the batter into the prepared 9 × 13 pan, and bake for 35-40 minutes, rotating once while baking. (The temperature should be at 190 degrees F.)
8. Once its done baking allow it to cool in the pan on a rack for at least 2 hours before frosting.
9. Make the frosting: Beat together the cream cheese and butter. Split the vanilla bean and scrape out the beans adding them to the cream cheese. Add the yogurt and mexican vanilla extract. Mix until smooth. Slowly incorporate the powdered sugar and blend.
10. Once the cake is cooled, flip carefully and peel off the parchment paper. Frost and serve.
Oh yeah. its good.
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