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The really ultimate carrot cake January 13, 2010

Posted by The Giddy Tiger in : Drooling & Cooking , trackback

 

At the mere mention of carrot cake, most Penangites would verily point you to a certain famous bakery here (whose name I will not mention).  I have tasted the carrot cake there before, and while I do enjoy its moist-NESS and taste overall, there is just something missing from it.  I just didn’t know what.

And then just last year, I tasted the Carrot Brownie from another *secret* shop in Penang, and it was served with delicious cream cheese frosting.  Now if you know me well enough, you’ll know that I will melt faster than butter in a pan if you give me anything with cream cheese in it.  The brownie was very good, but because of it being a brownie, it lacked a little in terms of moist-NESS.

So when I stumbled on the Ultimate Carrot Cake recipe, I decided to give it a try to see how ultimate ULTIMATE really was.  Besides, it was a failproof way to get my toddler to eat carrots! :)

And it doesn’t just contain walnuts; the cake is jampacked with walnuts, raisins and pineapples too!

The whole process of making and baking the cake (including prep time) took me about 2 hours, minus the time taken to make the cream cheese frosting.  I baked the cake in the morning and allowed it to cool down.  I only made the cream cheese frosting at night after the kids had gone to bed.

For my first attempt at something I would call a HEALTHY cake, it was very moist, just the way I like it; PLUS the frosting complemented the cake in the best way possible.  Ethan only wanted the frosting part, but I managed to sneak in the cake for him too!  I have leftover frosting in the fridge too, so that might *encourage* him to eat more!

They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, and so I was certainly very pleased when hubby declared it was VERY good. :)

Comments

1. pablopabla - January 13, 2010

Thanks for having the faith to try this out (and spending more than 2 hours of labour). I’m glad the recipe passed with flying colours :D

2. Ju Ju - January 13, 2010

I love baking carrot cakes but never tried with the cream cheese frosting. . Thanks for sharing.

3. Paik Ling - January 14, 2010

What a coincidence! I used the exact same recipe to bake it last Nov for hubs’ birthday. I’m not a carrot cake fan but was totally blown away with it!

4. Adino - January 15, 2010

Sigh, it looks so delicious!