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C&E was hosting yet again. That's what happens when you have a movie theater in your house :) Thought I would take a cake this time, instead of cupcakes, to switch it up!
My friend Dahee, in Korea, made a comment the other day that made me realize... I haven't made a carrot cake in awhile! I think I've mentioned it before but the first cake I ever mastered was a carrot-pineapple cake. With all these cupcake orders recently, I haven't had a chance to make this lately.
Unfortunately I could not find my hardcopy of this recipe anywhere! There is a version typed up in my old laptop that promptly died after showing me the blue screen of death. So unless I can find it somewhere in my emails... it is lost forever (Dahee, do you have a copy?). So, I resported to the next best thing: Simply Recipes. It wasn't as moist as my version, but after topping it with a very basic cream cheese frosting = cream cheese + butter + powdered sugar (resist the urge to add extracts/milk/etc.!), it was perfect.
A good tip: if you line your cake pans with wax paper (greased), they'll flip out nice & clean.
My friend Dahee, in Korea, made a comment the other day that made me realize... I haven't made a carrot cake in awhile! I think I've mentioned it before but the first cake I ever mastered was a carrot-pineapple cake. With all these cupcake orders recently, I haven't had a chance to make this lately.
Unfortunately I could not find my hardcopy of this recipe anywhere! There is a version typed up in my old laptop that promptly died after showing me the blue screen of death. So unless I can find it somewhere in my emails... it is lost forever (Dahee, do you have a copy?). So, I resported to the next best thing: Simply Recipes. It wasn't as moist as my version, but after topping it with a very basic cream cheese frosting = cream cheese + butter + powdered sugar (resist the urge to add extracts/milk/etc.!), it was perfect.
A good tip: if you line your cake pans with wax paper (greased), they'll flip out nice & clean.
Another good tip: Put something (be it wax paper, tin foil, newspaper... anything) under your cooling racks. I didn't and the oil/heat/moisture from the cake got all over my wood surface and left great, big, ugly white heat stains :*(
This is why I need a cake lesson. What happened to all my frosting in the middle? Everytime I try to make a layered cake, the frosting in the middle disappears. I even waited until it was completely cooled. Is carrot cake too moist to have a middle layer of frosting? Hmm... tips, please!
Do you mean parchment paper, or really wax paper?
ReplyDeleteYou know, I was wondering the same thing when I read that on "Simply Recipes" but she does say wax... and to butter the tops of the wax paper. Worked for me!
ReplyDeletedid you do a crumb coating between the layers?
ReplyDeleteFreeze the layers for at least 30-45 minutes. Pipe a thick border of frosting, then fill in. Make sure the filling doesn't exceed the border in height or else everything will ooze out.
ReplyDeleteOh, and the layers of cakes need to be leveled out with a knife. =)