People Who Say Their Favorite Dessert is Carrot Cake

I like white cake with a nice cherry topping. They used to serve it for lunch at school sometimes, and it was the only thing I actually liked. That and the soup.

I don't care what's in it. It tastes good.

The cream cheese icing compensates nicely for the vegetable.

CC is delicious - naturally sweet and savory. And the nuts add texture.

It contains all the major food groups: Vegetable (carrot), Grain (wheat flour), Dairy (cream cheese frosting), The Other One (the remainder of the ingredients).

It's not a dessert it's a cake. I don't know what type of people you mix with but I'm glad I don't know them.

I love a good carrot cake! I love cream cheese icing on carrot cake, or chocolate, or spice cake. But it works very well with the carrot cake, which isn't very sweet, but which has spice flavor. The frosting adds sweetness and richness, while the cake itself provides flavor and texture, at least in a really good, solid, moist carrot cake.

But of course, my favorite cake is anything that doesn't come from a grocery store bakery with that awful butter-free chemical frosting they use. Ick.

A carrot cake made right can be quite delicious, it isn't my favorite cake, I love, love, love just about any chocolate cake but I can understand people really liking carrot cake. Different strokes for different folks.

Zucchini bread is also quite delicious.

I just had one bite after lunch (a whole slice can last for days). It's that cream cheese frosting and spice combo that makes it so yummy). And then I add a few blueberries, raspberries and banana on a small slice and then microwave it until it all melts together every night with a nice cup of decaf watching The Amercans before bed. Heavenly.

I like carrot cake. It's delicious.

No

Wait until OP discovers fruit cake. Oh, the quivering chins! Oh, the disgust!

I like carrot cake a lot, with the cream cheese frosting. It's one of the very few desserts I am able to make from scratch.

I put it in the category of zucchini and banana "breads" (they're cakes, really). Out of the three, carrot cake is probably the most popular (as a full-blown dessert) because of the frosting. However, you could put that same frosting on zucchini & banana breads.

It’s not my favorite but I’d choose carrot cake over cheesecake any day. People who say cheesecake is their favorite baffle me. Gross.

How does this impact you, OP?

I’d rather have spice cake.

R16- Agreed- I love Spice Cake with a good cream cheese frosting.

Its all about that cc frosting though!

I love a good spice and carrot cake. With a cup of good black coffee.

Carrot cake is disgusting so OP has my vote.

Carrot cake makes us pretend that it's healthy.

You need a generous amount of cream cheese and walnuts and just the right amount of spice or it's a poor excuse for a cake.

I like it, but for some reason I always think it's going to fill me up more than it does.

What do we think about a little diced pineapple in our carrot cake? Tasty, or an abomination?

I'm all for a touch of pineapple! Adds a little sweetness, and a bit of tartness to counteract the sweet rich cream cheese frosting.

r23 is from Hawaii

A true Fat Whore would never turn her nose up at carrot cake.

The icing is too sweet and it sticks to the roof of your mouth. I feel like a dog trying to eat peanut butter.

Carrot Cake is 10% carrot, 60% flour, 20% sugar, 3% walnuts and 10% icing sugar.

I love carrot cake, it’s moist and the spice combination is very appealing to me. On an off note, does anyone have a goid recipe for carrot cake loaf? Not too bready but more like a cake in loaf form.

[quote] Not too bready

I prefer bready with less tooth-decaying sugar.

Stop talking about the CAKE!!!

[quote]People Who Say Their Favorite Dessert is Carrot Cake

No one has ever said that.

Bake it in a bread pan?

Zucchini Cake is essentially the same as Carrot Cake, isn't it?

I like carrot cake, but it has to be well made. I bought some from the supermarket recently and honestly I would've find better myself... and I hate baking!

The carrot and walnut cake from Costco is inedible, 3lb of it's 4lb weight has to be sugar.

Yes, for me, pineapple tidbits and/or pineapple juice makes carrot cake much better!

But many have never heard of this, or scoff at pineapple in carrot cake.

Check the small print on the label of a store bought carrot cake, or a homemade recipe. Often enough, pineapple and/or pineapple juice is listed!

Beware of the small print.

One cake looked as though it contained Glacé Cherries. It was actually coloured and sugared turnip.

Root vegetable cakes--ewww! I prefer sauerkraut cake. Chocolaty goodness with a coconut-like texture for those who don't like coconut.

Ummm one doesn't like coconut because of the texture.

I hate pineapple!

[quote]It's not a dessert it's a cake.

LOL!

Beetroot and Chocolate works surprisingly well.

Beets are disgusting.

Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is delicious. i don't want it all the time but if it is put in front of me, i am happy!

Zucchini bread is better than banana bread in my opinion, but I really enjoy them both.

More cak.

I like pineapple in carrot cake.

I've had beets in chocolate cake. The flavor was undetectable (which is a good thing for a chocolate cake). However, I could detect the texture, which wasn't good. Maybe my friend (who made the beet / choco cake) should have pureed the beets.

[quote]I prefer bready with less tooth-decaying sugar.

A really good cake shouldn't linger twixt the teeth so long as to decay them. Brush, hun, brush! Or just throw that cake straight down the gullet!

I wonder what is the healthiest and best oil to use in carrot cake.

R48, I've always used corn oil, in the past. Cakes have come out nicely. However, I recently started using avocado oil as a general cooking oil. It's very neutral-tasting (no avocado flavor) and I would not hesitate to use it in a carrot cake.

R48 Probably Canola (Rapeseed) as it's monounsaturated, but fuck it it's cake. I'd use full fat butter as the carrot will add lots of liquid to help it rise.

Actually, the oil would probably produce a better carrot cake than butter. The oil is in there not for health's sake. Some cakes just work better with oil (than butter).

All recipes call for oil, not butter.

Deep thoughts OP.

Carrot cake is like the all-in-one-food-groups dessert treat that is analogous to CVS being the perfectly convenient, one-stop location for Holidays shopping -- it's all in there!!!

OP has another underlying problem, or multiple problems.

[quote] And then I add a few blueberries, raspberries and banana on a small slice and then microwave it until it all melts together every night with a nice cup of decaf watching The Amercans before bed. Heavenly.

Don’t forget to cradle your mug r9!

The Amercans is so comforting.

If Pussy was as moist, spicy and comforting as Carrot Cake is I might go BI! I'm uncut so I can bring the cream cheese frosting.

R52 Not this one, It's all butter. Tastes sublime.

These dessert threads are all about how many DLers have replaced "I want cock" with "I want sugar"

Ugh, r59 - carrot cake with buttercream? Nope. Not a match.

Carrot cake is vile. Personally,I prefer zucchini cupcakes.

Carrot Cake is just a variety of spice cake. Nothing major here.

My favorites are Strawberry Cake - it's a cake base embedded with strawberries. Also love pineapple upside down cake an peach upside down cake. I've made all of them from scratch and gotta say they were fantastic.

I haven't had a slice of any type of cake in several years, and this thread is making me want one so bad.

[quote]I just had one bite after lunch (a whole slice can last for days).

Then it's not a very good cake.

meth-heads don't eat.

R64 When you are putting soft fruit into a cake you are heading into Gateau territory.

Thanks for the cake recipe with butter. I'll try it! But stick to icing. I actually like simple white sugar glaze icing on carrot cake.

One of my favorites is banana cake. This is an awesome recipe!

I liked cream cheese frosting when I was younger but now it seems like it's sweeter than it used to be, maybe it's just that I'm getting older and don't like sweets as much. There's a NYT recipe for cream cheese frosting with less sugar that I've been meaning to try.

R71 when you make your own frosting you can add as much or as little sugar as you like.

Not if I want it to be edible I can't! Baking involves chemistry and ratios and I can't fiddle with proportions on my own, R72. I need a recipe.

Please stop talking about that caaaaaaaaake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SLAM!

Carrot Cake is one of the least healthy cakes, full of fat and sugar, more than most cakes. And in the US, masked in a cheese, butter and sugar mixture. Truly fat-whores-rejoice worthy.

[quote]R9 with a nice cup of decaf watching The Amercans before bed.

I bet Martha made Clark many delicious carrot cakes that just went stale while she waited for him.

My maternal grandmother said the only she could ever enjoy carrot cake is with vanilla ice cream.

[quote]R12 Wait until OP discovers fruit cake. Oh, the quivering chins! Oh, the disgust!

I don’t want to be around for the mincemeat pie conversation.

[quote]Carrot Cake is one of the least healthy cakes, full of fat and sugar, more than most cakes. And in the US, masked in a cheese, butter and sugar mixture. Truly fat-whores-rejoice worthy.

I just ate a HUGE slice of it with a ton of cream cheese frosting. Jealous bitches?

OP obviously has never been served chocolate rutabaga cake with sweet parsnip sauce.

I have made this carrot cake recipe several times. It's delicious.

[quote] Not if I want it to be edible I can't! Baking involves chemistry and ratios and I can't fiddle with proportions on my own, [R72]. I need a recipe.

The frosting part is not "baking." Here's a recipe for cream cheese frosting. Feel free to adjust the sugar.

1 pkg. 8-oz. cream cheese.

1 box (1 lb.) powdered sugar.

1/2 lb. butter.

2 t. vanilla extract.

Also, I'm not even a great baker, but all that BS about how baking is an exact science is BS. People sub-in and sub-out ingredients in recipes (baking) all the time. (Without tragic results.)

R72, try to make the recipe at R82 but only add half the sugar. Then taste it. If it’s not sweet enough then add a quarter cup or so at a time and mix and taste again. Keep repeating until you get the level of sweetness you like. It’s not that difficult. It also helps to sift the powdered sugar before adding to the butter/cream cheese mixture.

Carrot is the root of all evil.

I'd rather have pie any day, but carrot cake is OK. I find the frosting to be too sweet for me, so only eat a few bites of it. I do enjoy a good white or chocolate cake. I also love upside down cakes, and horror of horrors, I love fruitcake, but only from the Collin Street Bakery.

My favorite dessert actually is carrot cake with cream cheese icing. So shoot me.

My favorite dessert is a beautiful man’s hard cock.

My favorite dessert is cum.

Brazilian carrot cake is different from American carrot cake.

Cypress Point carrot cake is the pinnacle of cakes. it makes me want to get married so I can serve it at the wedding.

Care to link to a recipe R90?

Good question, R91. I'm going to try to find my old recipe file to get the original recipe. (It's from "Diet for a Small Planet," and an internet search seems to keep it hidden.). I'll get the the recipe and find if it's somewhere online. If not, I'll just type it in.

Please don't post any recipes where the first ingredient is carrots.

r93, I don't think there's anything to worry about. I believe the first ingredient is three-foot-long elephant boogers, so you should be okay.