[Tee Hee][Important] Do you like carrot cake?

horcruxes · Post by **horcruxes** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:38 pm

yum.....who wants some carrot cake?

Jewelybug · Post by **Jewelybug** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:04 pm

horcruxes wrote:yum.....who wants some carrot cake?

I do i do!! *skips off to the kitchen to make some*

FallingIntoSin · Post by **FallingIntoSin** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:14 am

Jewelybug wrote:
horcruxes wrote:yum.....who wants some carrot cake?
I do i do!! *skips off to the kitchen to make some*

Make me some Carrot Cake, Bish!

shifty · Post by **shifty** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:34 am

I'll be honest, I had never tasted carrot cake when I made this thread. The idea of mixing carrots in a cake seemed rather disgusting. So, I just believed I would hate it.

Due to my love for Belle, I decided I would give in and at least try carrot cake to give it a chance! So, at 1am on Tuesday (I think?) I went into my kitchen and began gathering the ingredients to put forth into this, what I thought at the time, poor excuse for a cake.

I didn't have any baking powder or canola oil, so I ended up having to use substitutes (and substitutes for substitutes, in some cases). I also only had baby carrots, so it was quite difficult to grate them and I ended up cutting my knuckles (This was the reason my knuckles were bleeding and shooting fireballs that night!).

Roughly 2 hours later, I finally completed baking my first carrot cake. Needless to say, it came out very badly. It didn't rise and was only about 1/2 an inch thick. And I had no cream cheese, so it was lacking the icing! I let it cool, cut me a tiny piece, placed it on my plate.... and then I took a bite. My very first bite of carrot cake... Ever.

This next part is very hard for me...

To my surprise... it was... pretty good.
(I can't believe I just typed that!!)

This afternoon, I decided I wanted to go out and buy all of the proper ingredients and attempt to make a true carrot cake. The preparation stage was much easier this time and I didn't cut my knuckles since I had full size carrots now (But grating carrots is seriously a lot of work!). I placed it in the oven and set to work on the icing! It was a bit harder to make than I thought; It was all clumpy and it took a lot of mixing to get it smooth.

Forty-five minutes after setting it to cook, it was finally done. I let it cool for an hour and then put the icing on and sprinkled some coconut stuff on it. I cut a piece, placed it on my plate, and took a bite...

WOW! CARROT CAKE IS SO DELICIOUS!!!!

Seriously, I don't see how anyone can hate it. It is just *that* good. Or maybe it's just my unmatched baking skills? Who knows!

Now that my Carrot Cake Confession is out of the way, thank you Belle for persuading me into trying it. I love you!! And I apologize to all of those who I belittled in the past due to your pro stance regarding carrot cake. You were right. I was wrong.

<3<3

mourningbelle · Post by **mourningbelle** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:36 am

FallingIntoSin · Post by **FallingIntoSin** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:38 am

shifty wrote: WOW! CARROT CAKE IS SO DELICIOUS!!!!

<3<3

Finally, you've seen the light! I'm so proud of you, I could cry!

Mintgurl · Post by **Mintgurl** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:39 am

Yayyyyyy shiftyyyyyyy!

I TOLD you so! carrotcake ftw.

I say you need to re-cast your vote on the poll

bethy · Post by **bethy** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:40 am

yay, shifty!!!!!

Carrot Cake really is pretty damn good stuff. Although, I'm not fond of icing...I'm weird like that. I like plain cake, no icing.Or if it has icing, it needs to be a very thin layer.

romanceismusic · Post by **romanceismusic** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:19 pm

NOOOOOOOO! SHIFTY! YOU'VE BEEN SUCKED INTO THE DARK SIDE!

I still don't like it.

how many of us are left X_X

EDIT: edited because I can't spell

tiltingwindward · Post by **tiltingwindward** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:10 pm

See? Did I not tell you that Enlightenment waited just beyond the fork and the electric mixer?

Shifty, I'm very proud of you. I hope the misguided legions (Lad) will soon follow your excellent example and reach their own nirvana. I'm so happy for you that I'm even willing to reconsider your application for citizenship in the human race.

ladron121 · Post by **ladron121** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:43 pm

Et tu, Shifty

I cannot believe what I have seen here. Traitors left and right. I hate you all. HATE YOU ALL!!!

I cannot continue this war alone. It seems the world is hell-bent on steering itself toward ruination. I no longer consider this my problem. I am moving to a cave deep in the Himalayas, away from all human contact. It seems that the world has moved on, abandoning hope, kindness, and basic human decency for a baked good made with a salad garnishment.

I do not wish to be a part of a world that has made that kind of a choice.

Farewell to all...

ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE!

tiltingwindward · Post by **tiltingwindward** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:48 pm

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...um, Lad?

You still have a way to get from the Himalayas to the drop locations, right?

surrealisticpill · Post by **surrealisticpill** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:01 pm

I have a carrot cake confession of my own....

I had never tried carrot cake. It always looked so disgusting and just plain wrong. But today a local Bonairean took my boyfriend and me to an Antillean restaurant in the barrio of Rincon. I'm not the type of person who is eager to try new foods. But today I tried many things for the first time, including goat stew, funchi, and for dessert..... yes, carrot cake!

Normally I would have refused the carrot cake, but I was in a situation where I had to eat it to be polite. I'm very grateful that it did not have cream cheese icing because it would have been really hard for me to eat it. I looked at the carrot cake.... I could see the little chunks of carrots in it. There were raisins. I forced myself to take a bite.... IT WAS GOOD!!!

Wow. Now I would never say that it's the best dessert ever, but it was decent. I still wouldn't eat it with cream cheese icing, because I hate cream cheese, but this carrot cake was served with whipped cream and a cherry. Good stuff.

Sorry for bashing all of you carrot cake lovers. I'm slowly crossing over to the other side. Sorry Lad, it looks like you truly are alone.

Nieriel.Manwathiel · Post by **Nieriel.Manwathiel** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:11 pm

carrot cake CRUNCHY?? If ya burn it for three hours!!! wow; whoever defiled wikipedia with that statement must've been... i dunno... bitten... by a.... carrot....

edit - dern typos

bethy · Post by **bethy** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:27 pm

Another convert! yay!!!!

Here's the recipe I use...although I never frost the cake and I don't use pecans because I don't like nutty cakes/breads. I make the frosting and will pipe it on individual servings for those who like it, though.

Carrot Cake
Prep Time: 30 Minutes
Cook Time: 1 Hour
Ready In: 2 Hours
Yields: 18 servings

INGREDIENTS:
4 eggs
1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
2 cups white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

3 cups grated carrots
1 cup chopped pecans

1/2 cup butter, softened
8 ounces cream cheese,
softened
4 cups confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans

DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan.
2. In a large bowl, beat together eggs, oil, white sugar and 2 teaspoons vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Stir in carrots. Fold in pecans. Pour into prepared pan.
3. Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
4. To Make Frosting: In a medium bowl, combine butter, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until the mixture is smooth and creamy. Stir in chopped pecans. Frost the cooled cake