It's TT - time for the carrot cake...

[curiouswombat]

We are currently in the midst of the TT motorcycle festival which, for me, means I am making what feels like industrial quantities of carrot cake - not to mention chocolate cake, chocolate brownies, flapjack, gingerbread... We sell filled baps, hot pasty, and lots and lots of home-made cakes at church to the spectators, as our church grounds are an excellent spot to watch the racing.

So this was yesterday's baking in my house -



That was the third 18 piece carrot cake I've made, and I will make at least one more. The chocolate cakes behind, together, come to the same size but somehow, on that angle, they look a lot smaller. I know now that these are 'sheet cakes' - thank you bojojoti - in this case dark chocolate with chocolate frosting and fudge chunks.

I've also done 3 trays of chocolate brownie, 2 trays of oat flapjack, and one of gingerbread the same size as the carrot cake. And D-d has also been turning out her specialities - cherry frangipan, fruit flapjack, rocky road and tiffin. I reckon, just between the two of us, our personal cake sales will raise about £170 - and our input is about 10% of the whole!

For something completely different, there are a few pictures I took a week or more ago, just of the sea, and a stairway to nowhere...

A nice sunny day with a bit of a breeze to put the white horses on the sea - a good day for dog walking. And a rather lonely staircase to nowhere...








Oh - and a picture I took for photo_scavenger of a rather nice post box which serves a hamlet of about 6 or 7 houses in the west of the island;

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Ooo! Scratch carrot cake! I am afraid I take the lazy way out and just add some grated carrot and raisins to a spice cake mix, seems to work; I do make my own butter cream frosting for it though!

As close as I am to the sea, figuratively speaking, if I stand on a ladder to peer over the fence the inconsiderate people behind us built, I can see it from the house, I have not been to the beach in years! Your pictures are lovely, not sure Miss Kitty would like to be walked there though, sand in her paws etc.!

Keep on baking, have finished squares for blanket and am now working on a little hoodie, though it seems to be doing a Topsy on me and growing!

Huggs,
Lynda

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

The most hard work is zesting the oranges and cleaning the food processor after grating the carrots - the actual cake bit is easy enough! I don't put dried fruit in mine, but chopped pecans instead. I do cream cheese frosting - and give it an orangey flavour, and the odd small orange flecks to reflect the carrot in the cake, by adding a large spoonful of St Dalfour marmalade which is a very soft set as it is low sugar.

Here the sea simply is - most roads to most places will take you beside it, or go high enough up that it is the biggest part of the view. And the beaches are the most popular dog-walking places - I even take Mum's long-haired chihuahua on the beach for a run sometimes.

[ayinhara.livejournal.com]

I like your ideas about carrot cake. I have to do a dessert for a potluck. Carrot cake is easy and popular.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I actually do like carrot cake - which is why I began making it - but by the time I've made it 4 or 5 times in 10 days I get fed up with it!

I really like it with some chopped pecans in it, and although I do make vanilla frosting sometimes, I think the orange version works well because of the orange in the cake.