I realise that out of my last 4 entries 3 have been about carrot cake more or less! It really is a sign of not having a functioning kitchen or kitchen at all and being treated by Megan my carrot cake queen friend! That was a pre-emptive warning that yes we are talking about more cake (if the title didn't give it away first!).
On Monday we moved all the remaining items into our storage locker and were homeless. We stayed at Megan's and went out for dinner, which was amazing! When we got home we had cake to celebrate my birthday a few days early as we will be in Australia by then. The cake was supposed to be a surprise but when my husband opened the fridge and saw the cake he yelled out 'cake' and gave the game away. Ha ha! Lover of baked goods that he is, couldn't contain his excitement, even though he knew about the surprise cake in advance anyway!
The cake was perfection. She says she gets better each time she makes. It had some pineapple in it, which is actually what my only carrot cake recipe uses, really makes it moist. It also had hand toasted coconut on the top, which was heaven! The 4 layers is a Megan addition, making it feel even more decadent.
After all these carrot cakes from the Food and Wine LCBO magazine have been made I was curious how many carrots she had gone through. She pulled out this enormous carrot that they had found and said only 1 1/2 of these per cake as they are so huge!
I spoke to another friend yesterday who said she had been reading about these cakes and made the pecan/bourbon one and that it was amazing too! Yum!
I think this will be the last entry for a few days as we fly to Australia this evening and lets face it, there is nothing much to write about airplane food or airport food! And, we will be travelling for a fairly hefty amount of time! Will be writing from Perth next time!
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