Cake Madness - Day 2

Cake of the day: Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting. 

The recipes I found (Sam's Famous Carrot Cake & Cream Cheese Frosting) called for walnuts, coconut, pineapple and raisins in the cake, so if you are a carrot cake purist and think that is gross, please avoid this post. As my cake sponsor doesn't like raisins, they were omitted, but the rest was included, and I put a sign up about there being coconut and walnuts in the cake and I didn't get any nasty comments about coconut today, hooray.

It turns out that today (February 3rd) is National Carrot Cake Day . . .who knew? I was certainly not aware of it when I planned Carrot Cake for today, what a happy coincidence. Anyways, the cake and frosting were both easy to make and I think it turned out really tasty. Evidently my coworkers thought so too as it was gone in two hours again and landed me a few more cake sponsors :)

Not much to look at, but so moist underneath

Here are some of the comments this cake received:

• I have never had carrot cake, so this is the best that I've ever had :)
• Appearance is average as far as "all" cakes go . . .but good in terms of carrot cake. Cream cheese frosting is perfect for the cake . . .not too cheesy and not too sweet
• Moist cake. Interesting combination of flavors, nuts, fruit, don't pick up carrots. Creamy frosting.
• Very good! Plus, there is a healthy aspect: 1. carrots 2. coconut 3.nuts 4.dairy - cream cheese!
• Thanks for trying to sabotage the weight loss challenge :P (Yes, there is a weight loss challenge going on at my work right now . . .oops)
• Yummy! I like the walnuts and raisins (hmm, there are no raisins in my cake) though some feel them unorthodox. Could have done with more nutmeg IMHO (well, since I didn't have any nutmeg in there either, I agree)
• Best carrot cake that I've ever had! Thanks.
• Absolutely delicious!! The frosting was nice and creamy. Great texture. The cake itself was moist and had lots of flavor!!

Behold the yumminess