Carrot Cake. Happy Easter form my kitchen to yours with this moist and irresistible carrot cake. I hope you will have an enjoyable Easter weekend with your family and friends. My dessert suggestion for your Easter buffet would be a homemade carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. This carrot cake gets enriched with walnuts, golden raisins, and coconut flakes. The little carrots for the decoration are handmade by my kids with marzipan and food coloring. Aren’t they adorable? My family LOVES this carrot cake and by the time the 9×13 inch cake was ready for frosting just a 9×9 size remained since everybody had to have just a little nibble beforehand.
Enjoy and Happy Easter! Preheat your oven to 350 F. Make your own marzipan carrots using about 4 ounces (100 g) marzipan. Tagged as: carrots, coconut, cream cheese, raisins, walnuts. Carrot Cake Recipe. As you can tell from the picture, that trifle doesn’t exactly look like a cake. This was one of those “when life gives you lemons you make lemonade” situations.
I was planning to make this carrot cake recipe for Thanksgiving dessert, to go along with the pumpkin pies that my great aunt was planning on bringing. As luck(?) Would have it, for the first time in three years, I had cakes fall apart when turning them out of the pan. The good news? My aunt always makes the pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving, but my mom asked if I would make an additional dessert, and of course I said yes. I highly, highly recommend this cake. Two Minute Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake. This, friends, is where procrastination gets me. I was staring at the computer, mired in writers’ block. I clicked on that Stumble button I installed in my toolbar but never use. Oh look! A new webpage has popped up! On it, a recipe for single-serving peanut butter cake you mix and microwave in a minute. The chocolate:peanut butter ratio wasn’t quite right, and so I made the cake chocolate with a spoonful of cocoa.
Chocolate chips are a must – they turn into gooey pockets of melted chocolate in the finished product. Butter or spray a ramekin, or do it right in a mug. It took mine a minute to cook, rather than 30 seconds. Note to self: pick up some vanilla ice cream. Two Minute Chocolate Peanut Butter Cakewith thanks to Cassie of Back to Her Roots! Peanut butter AND portable? Double Stuffed Oreo Cake. Yesterday I had a desperate phone call from my very good friend, B. It was her boyfriend's birthday & she'd promised him a "cake he'd never forget". "Great! " I said. "What are you making? " After a little mumbling & footshuffling, she conceded that she is the worlds worst cook & the only things ever been able to make are my Slutty Brownies . Ah. The Double Stuffed Oreo cake was born.
Put 25(ish) cookies into the bag... ... and beat the hell out of them, until you're left with something like this: Taste just a little bit, y'know... just to check they're not poisoned or anything. Stir in your Oreos. Pop it in the fridge until your cakes are ready. Place them on a wire rack to cool. Completely cool, all the way through, you can get started. Now, turn this upside down onto your serving dish. See? Don't be afraid of it, use your fingers & get it all the way to the edge.
Carefully place your second cake on top, upside down Look at that smart looking cake! (Click on the photo for instructions. Rainbow cake! Aaannnndddd, she’s back! So I did mention something about health and/or diet food in my last post, and while this recipe is the latter, it is most certainly not to be confused with the former. I posted about my rainbow cake here, and it got a lot of traffic on over to my livejournal, and everyone wanted the “recipe.” The cool thing is that if you’re making something so distractingly colourful, people will think it’s delicious no matter what.
This presents me with the option to use an old Weight Watchers trick—the one-point cupcake. Except I’m making a cake and I created my own frosting. Kinda. I’ve seen it done before, but I swear I made it up first! This cake is suitable for many occasions: . . . so I’m sure you’ll find a use for this recipe soon. And of course, you can use any white cake recipe you’d like. Oh yes, and do me a favour: DOUBLE THE RECIPE AS PHOTOGRAPHED HERE!! Okay, on with the ingredients. That’s all. The action shots weren’t too thrilling. Now finish up. Such lovely dishes!