So the name of this Blog contains the words Birds & Cakes up to now it's been pretty Birds heavy with just a batch of Scones tagged onto another post, to represent the cake side!! Technically my hobby is actually, EATING cakes , but I occasionally throw together the odd bake , today with a surfeit of Carrots in the house it was a no-brainer to produce a Carrot Cake.
So basically my technique is to google Carrot Cake recipe and see what comes up !! In the end I amalgamated 2 different ones and used a mixture of Dark and Light Muscovado sugar instead of Caster , put in Mixed Spice instead of Cinnamon (not a fan), swapped Raisons for Sultanas didn't have any Walnuts so did a mixture of Pecans and Hazelnuts. So pretty much a completely different recipe!! :)
A couple of years ago Margie and I ,inspired by the walk to wildlife, decided to only eat, where possible, organic food, Pesticides are evil!! It amazes me in a world where people spin fantasy Conspiracy Theories about 5G and Vaccines, everyone completely ignores pesticide use ,where farmers actually spray poisons that are designed to kill things, with proven links to Cancer ,Autism and Digestive problems ,on to their food, it leaches into the water supply and is in the air we breathe!!However it is the destruction to our wildlife that made us commit to Organic.
Anyway off me hobby horse ,back to the cake ,so obviously Organic ingredients are a little more expensive which pushes the price up, it's also, during lockdown, more difficult to get them, Blooming impossible to get Organic Sugar anyway so we just go down the fair trade route on that. In this recipe the Butter, Eggs, Flour, Carrots , Sultanas and Nuts are Organic the Sunflower Oil and Cream Cheese are not. All went reasonably well in the making ,managed to prevent Margie licking the bowl before the mixture had been poured, she reckoned it tasted good at this point!! Cooking needed a bit longer than the recipes said but maybe down to the change of Sugar type. Anyway whipped up a quick frosting from Cream Cheese, Butter and Icing Sugar , plonked a few Pecans on to tart it up a bit and bingo tasty as Carrot Cake nice and moist
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| Grate Carrots! |
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| Yeah not looking that tasty ATM |
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| Carrots In! |
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| Nuts & Sultanas |
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| Still not looking that Great but was tasty at this stage ,Margie licked spoon and bowl at this point! |
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| Came Out Ok |
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| Bit of Cream Cheese Frosting and some fancy-dan decoration |
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| The finished article |
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