Recipe of the Week – Carrot Cake
April 13, 2009
(From The Dessert Collection at emealsforyou.com)
It’s been one of those weeks around here. Our son, the Broadway sound designer, called and asked if I could send some sticky buns and carrot cake for an Easter dinner he was having with friends in New York. This meant not only baking the stuff but figuring out how to get it to New York and have it still eatable. While this seems to be a no-brainer the logistics proved to be a bit difficult.
First there is getting the right size box, not too big, not too small, just right. Then I had to line the box in foam to keep some of the cold in. I thought I did a pretty good job of this but maybe I didn’t count on the US Postal Service giving the box the toss test. So here I am unfrosted carrot cake (three layers), two tins of sticky buns ready for the oven, cream cheese icing and of course a few small Cadbury eggs all packaged nicely. I threw in a couple of frozen shipping bags, sealed it up and off to the post office.
$70 later; the box is on its way, next day delivery. Fine, mission accomplished right? Almost! The first problem was that the frozen bags broke. The Postal authorities called to say that the package was leaking and what was in it. Then an hour later a Postal Inspector called to say they would need to open the package, for safety sake. I have to say they were very professional and I had no problem with them opening the box. Finally at around noon the box made it to Lower Manhattan and was delivered.
My son said that despite the sticky buns needing a little rearranging and one of the cake layers being crushed it all worked out fine… extra icing on the cake and the sticky buns disappeared so fast no one noticed any problem. Oh yeah! the Cadbury eggs were pretty good too.
Carrot Cake
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 12 |
| Category: | Dessert |
| Meal: | You’re Something Special (Celebration Meal Plans) |
| 1.5 | cup | oil, vegetable |
| 2 | cup | sugar, white |
| 4 | large | egg |
| 2 | cup | flour, all-purpose |
| 1.5 | tsp | baking soda |
| 1.5 | tsp | baking powder |
| 2 | tsp | cinnamon. ground |
| 1 | tsp | salt, kosher |
| 3 | whole | carrots, fresh, whole |
| 1 | cup | walnuts, chopped |
| 0.5 | cup | raisins, golden |
Cream sugar, eggs and oil.
Mix in flour, baking soda and powder, cinnamon and salt. Add grated carrots, nuts and raisins.
Bake in greased tube pan or (2) 9 cake pans for 40- 50 minutes at 350 degrees.
Cover with cream cheese icing. *
* The icing recipe can be found at emealsforyou.com)
Entry Filed under: Dessert. Tags: carrot cake, cream cheese icing, sticky buns.
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