Carrot Cake

Carrot cake is a cake which consists of grated carrot mixed with batter. The carrot softens in the cooking process, and the cake usually has a soft, dense texture. The carrots themselves enhance the flavor, texture and appearance of the cake.

Carrots have been used in sweet cakes since the medieval period, during which time sweeteners were scarce and expensive, while carrots, which contain more sugar than any other vegetable besides the sugar beet, were much easier to come by and were used to make sweet desserts.[2] The popularity of carrot cake was likely revived in Britain because of rationing during the Second World War.[3]

Carrot cakes first became commonly available in restaurants and cafeterias in the United States in the early 1960s. They were at first a novelty item, but people liked them so much that carrot cake became standard dessert fare.[citation needed] In 2005, the American-based Food Network listed carrot cake, with its cream-cheese icing, as number five of the top five fad foods of the 1970s.

Ingredients:

2 1/2 Cups Cake Flour or All Purpose Flour (APF)
3/4 Tsp B.Soda
3/4 Tsp Salt
1/2 Tsp Cinnamon Powder
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3/4 Cup Butter
2 1/4 Cups White Sugar
3 Pcs Eggs
3/4 Cup Crushed Pineapple
2 Cups Chopped Walnuts
3 1/2 Tbsp Water
1 1/2 Cups Grated Carrots

Cake Procedure:
1.Sift APF, b. Soda,Salt and Cinnamon Powder together.
2.Cream Butter until Soft and Fluffy (not melted)using electric mixer. Add sugar, eggs, Crushed Pineapple, Chopped walnuts, water and grated carrots one at a time, Add Flour mixture gradually.
3. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake in a preheated oven for 25-30 mins.

Chocolate Forsting ingredients:
500g Cocolate Bar
1/2 Cup All Purpose Cream
Procedure:
1. Place Chocolate bar in a double boiler. until Soft and meled.
2. Remove melted chocolate from heat. Add All purpose cream gradually.
3. Pour the chocolate frosting into carrot cake using rubberized spatula.
4. Decorate your cake using cake decoration on your own design.

For cream cheese icing ingredients:
3 1/2 Cups Powdered Sugar (Confectioner Sugar)
1 C Cream Cheese
1/4 C Butter
1 Tsp Vanilla

Cream Cheese pocedure:
1. Cream the butter and creame cheese using electric mixer, add powdered sugar and vanilla.
2. Pour Cream cheese into carrot cake Spread creame cheese icing using spatula, sprinkle additional walnuts as decoration of cake, or decorate the cake in your own design.

Bon Appetite!

My Black Forest Version

For the uninitiated, black forest cake is chocolate cake soaked in cherry liqueur, with a cherry filling, a whipped cream topping, and cherries and chocolate on top.

According to What's Cooking America, black forest cake was named in the late 16th century after the Black Forest Region in Germany (Der Schwarzwald in German) located in the state of Baden-Württemberg. In German, black forest cake is called Schwarzwälderkirschtorte.

These black forest cupcakes were light, fluffy, and incredibly moist. Because of the cherry filling and liqueur, they were almost too moist to eat without a fork. This didn't seem to bother anyone.

 Ready to create your Own Black forest Cake?

Materials:

Round Baking Pan

Mixer

Measuring Cups/Spoon

Piping Bag and Tip

Ingredients:

1 dark chocolate cake mix (or your own from scratch)
1/4 c. kirsch (cherry brandy)
1 can cherry pie filling
16 oz. heavy whipping cream
1/2 c. confectioners' sugar
Maraschino cherries, drained, optional, for garnish
milk chocolate curls or shavings, for garnish

Preparation:
Drain cherry pie filling in a colander to remove most of the thickened juices.

Make cake, following package directions. Bake cake, as directed, in two 9-inch layer cake pans.

When cool, sprinkle kirsch over both cake layers.

Chill electric beaters and large mixing bowl; beat cream until it thickens slightly, gradually add confectioners' sugar and beat until thick enough to hold its shape.

Using a vegetable peeler, shave chocolate; refrigerate until ready to serve.

Assemble cake; place one layer on serving plate and spread its top with 1/2-inch thick layer of whipped cream and strew the cherries over the cream leaving about 1/2 inch margin around border of cake with no cherries.

Set other layer on top of cherries and spread top and sides of cake with remaining cream, shape whipped cream into decorative swirls on top.

With fingers, gently press chocolate curls into cream on sides of cake.

Garnish top with drained maraschino cherries, if desired, or with a few remaining chocolate curls.

My Other version of Black Forest Cake



My Barbie doll cake Couture

To all Mothers Out there Check it out this "Barbie Doll cakes for your loving daughters, friends, and even to yourself? Stay on this site as i turn your cake to a fabulous barbie cake!

Hi I'm khell, a full time working mum with a supportive husband and a loving son. Started the baking journey because of my dear son but fall in love with this new hobby, especially making birthday cake for someone special.

And the picture you'll see is my Barbie doll cake for my friend's daughter "Precious".

Last year when I made a cake for my niece birthday, my friend Rowena requested one for her daughter's birthday as well. So I had foreseen that Rowena will request for a barbie doll cake for Precious (her daughter) birthday if she see the barbie doll cake that I made for my niece :). I accepted her order forgetting I will have a very hectic schedule during that week. Well, since I had made my commitment, I will have to fullfil it by hook or by crook.

Due to space contraints for storage and also precious do not need a big cake, so I need to make a small version of barbie doll cake for her. I had headache on how to make this cake as even I can bake a smaller cake but I can't reduce the height of the cake, the cake need to be tall enough to cover till the waist of barbie doll. In order to store the cake in the fridge, I need to remove 2 shelves from the fridge which is not possible cos my husband had bought a lot of food that need to store in the fridge, the most I can remove is one shelve. I kept thinking of a lot of alternatives but seem not suitable until I found out that precious has a "imitation" barbie doll that dunno who bought as a gift for her, which is shorter than original barbie doll.

After I inserted the doll in the cake and put it in the fridge, I then realised the cake was still too high to store in the fridge. Gosh! What should I do? I removed the doll, trying to bend the legs of doll then I realised the lower part of the body can be dismantled. I was so happy, dismantled it and left only the upper part of body, insert back to the cake but the hole of the cake was too big due to my earlier adjustment so the doll actually sunken in that caused the gown looking like a high waist gown heeheehee... ... Luckily Rowena and precious still very happpy and love this cake :).

Barbie Doll Cake with Vanilla butter cupcakes...

Here it go:

Ingredients:

For Chocolate Sponge Cake : (yield 6" round cake pan and a mini chiffon cake pan)
5 eggs
100g caster sugar
2 tbsp golden syrup
1g salt
32g oil
21g cocoa powder
106g cake flour
1g baking soda
21g milk

Method:
1. Put the pot on the fire, pour in the oil immediately to heat up and off the fire when the oil start to warm.
2. Add in the cocoa powder and stir well to dissolve the cocoa powder with oil and set aside.
3. Mix eggs, sugar, salt in the mixing bowl and whisk in high speed till thick and creamy, increase the volume unitl the color turn pale.
4. Add in glucose and whisk in medium speed until ribbon stage.
5. Mix in the sifted flour and baking soda, whisk in low speed for 3 circles to let the flour mix into the egg mixture. Then turn to medium speed and whisk for about 20 circles (about 20 seconds) to mix well.
6. Fold 1/3 to 1/2 of the batter into cocoa mixture and mix well. Pour the mixture back to the remaining batter, add in milk to mix well.
7. Pour the batter in the cake tin till 60-70% full.
8. Bang the cake tin on the table lightly to reduce some air.
9. Bake at lower heat 160 degree upper heat 180 degree for 35 mins.
10. Once done, remove from oven and turn the cake tin upside down on wire rack for it to cool down.
11. When the cake is cool, press round the top side of the cake and push up the bottom plate to remove the cake.
12. Press round the bottom of the cake to remove the cake from the bottom plate.

For Filling and Frosting :
300g whipping cream
4 cups powdered sugar
some rose pink coloring

Whip the whipping cream with the rose pink coloring till stiff.

To Assemble :
1. Slice the cooled cake into 3 layers.
2. Place one layer on the turntable/cake board and brush with some cherry syrup.
3. Spread whipped cream.
4. Place the second layer and spread the whipped cream.
5. Set the third layer of sponge on top of it and spread top and sides of cake with remaining cream.
6. Insert the doll in the center of the cake.
7. Decorate the gown cake as desire.

Voala!!