Carrot Cake in Pics

Someone wanted me to make carrot cake so I searched online & found a recipe here.

Bought most of the stuff I need the other day on my trip to the bazaar

Was trifle apprehensive as I was doing everything all alone - especially since I hadn’t learned this at a class or anything (remember my level is still below zero) but decided it would be a great learning experience for me to try something new all by myself right out of a recipe.

Started off by cleaning carrots & then grating them (see uncleaned carrots on left.)

As per the recipe had to add brown sugar & keep for 60 mins, but I didn’t have brown sugar (nor any honey to make any) so just used regular sugar. As it turned out this was a good thing, because the cake is waaaay too rich for words.

While this was going on I crushed and drained some pineapples. Now I could have just bought a can of pineapples from a store, but decided I could have bought a ready made mix as well. If I was doing things from stratch, might as well try do everything from stratch. Besides it was fun using the little crushing stone thingie!!

Crushing & Draining took me a while & the carrot/sugar mix was almost ready, so started beating the eggs.

and ground the cinnamon

Added raisins to the carrot mix (yes, I did stir well after taking this pic!!)

In the meanwhile, added more sugar, oil, vanilla, pineapple, flour, baking soda, salt & cinnamon to the eggs until I got this batter:

Finally added the carrot mix:

and the nuts to end:

This is what it looked like before I put the tins in the oven:

And when I got it out about 50 mins later, after cooling & after digging in a bit

And finally (since I’m an eternal narcissist) a pic of the chef

Here’s a PS on that: Technically was supposed to frost with cream cheese frosting between layers & also on the top, but didn’t have any frosting recipe (or is this something one gets off the shelf? Hmm). So ended up with 2 cakes instead of one