Carrot Cake

A recipe by Baking Day with Anna Olson

The Perfect Dessert Cake

Our  next recipe to review from A Baking Day with Anna Olson is found on page241 ;Classic Carrot Cake with Pineapple.

I did not need such a large cake so I halved the ingredients and it worked beautifully.

Ingredients

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Carrot Trick

Instead of grating your carrots, try this time-saving tip. Buy matchstick carrots and pulse them in your food processor.

  • I added 1 mashed banana
  • I added 1 teaspoon/4 grams vanilla
  • I added 1/2 teaspoon/2 grams Fiori di Sicilia (a lovely blend of citrus and vanilla) it is one of my secret weapons in baking

I omitted raisins and nuts - but both would be a great addition

Icing

I choose to ice my carrot cake with my new favourite icing from Baking with Dorie; page 92. A cream cheese- biscoff buttercream.

 

 

 

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The Bake

My mom has this wonderful flower shape baking pan, that I thought would be perfect for this cake.

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The Results

My rating of this recipe is 5 out of 5. Wonderful  flavour and a super moist cake. Everyone loved the not-so basic cream cheese frosting. 

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