Carrot Cake

Author

Marta

Wild carrot from a botany textbook according to ChatGPT 🧠

Ingredients

The part of the carrot that we will be using here (the red-orange part) is a root of Wild carrot Daucus carota. However, whether something is a root or not is famously causing confusion among non-biologist type of folks. For example, if you type ‘root’ on your phone, Gboard will propose an emoji of ginger root <here I wanted an emoji of the ‘root’>And that is not a root, not at all. It’s a rhizome, which is actually a stem!

Know your roots, people!

Cups and spoons into volume

What’s the main difference between baking a cake and doing a PCR? For one of them, you don’t need a high-precision lab pipette measuring droplet volume to the nearest 0.1 \(\mu 1\)

When baking, I’m more of a ‘na oko’ person. But for those who need the utmost precision in their recipes:

  • my cup is 250 ml

  • my teaspoon is 5 ml

Dough:

  • carrots (medium size) - 2 🥕

  • oil - 1 cup

  • eggs - 3

  • flour - 255 g

  • baking powder - 1.5 teaspoon

  • baking soda - 0.5 teaspoon

  • brow sugar - 1.5 cup

  • cinnamon - 1 teaspoon

  • pecan nuts - 200 grams

  • salt - just a pinch for the magic ;)

Cream:

  • cream cheese (the fluffy type like Almette )

  • powdered sugar - the original recipe said 120 grams, but it’s way too much, I add 20 grams

  • butter - 50 g

  • orange juice - squeezed from a 0.25 of orange - or more, if you want it to be less solid/ more orangey

Step by step

Dough:

  1. Mix eggs with sugar. Add oil and mix.

  2. In separate container mix flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Do the mixing with spoon, not with kitchen robot, otherwise everything will explode :)

  3. Mix the mixed stuff from the previous steps.

  4. Add grated carrot and (again) mix everything together with spoon

  5. Add chopped nuts and mix everything together.

  6. Put into baking tin on baking paper. Bake in 180 C for ~35 minutes

Cream:

  1. Melt the butter and wait for it to cool down a bit

  2. Mix butter with cream cheese, melted butter, powdered sugar and orange juice

  3. Put the cream on top on your baked cake, after it cools down

SMACZNEGO!

DRINKING GAME!

Make this baking experience fun for yourself and drink every time you read ‘mix’ in the recipe!

I AM WRITTING THIS IN SOURCE, DESPERATE TO GET 🥕

AND NOW I AM DESPERATE IN NANO. PLEASE NANO GIVE ME 🧠