Bakingtime

I decided that I needed to get back to baking. Some of my life choices recently (excessive shopping/Kardashian purging) have been slightly less healthier than I would have liked. So in honor of my mother's birthday, and with the intention of fixing my life of course, I decided to bake a cake.

Now to preface this, I love chocolate, I've just recently come to terms with my addiction. Sadly I feel addiction may be more than an appropriate word choice in this instance. Without a few days of chocolate, I crave it. But I felt like making something new and different than I usually do today. So after flipping through a few hundred pages of one of my mother's cookbook, I decided upon a cake that I thought would be a nice change of pace: carrot cake.

I haven't always been a fan of carrot cake. My thought process was: when I eat cake, I'm going to enjoy it and splurge- not go halvies on this carrot crap. Not long ago though, I tried a carrot cake cupcake and just about died. The cream cheese frosting really complemented the spicy flavor of the cake. So today when I saw the carrot cake recipe, I wrote down a few ingredients that I needed for the recipe and returned shortly from the grocery store.

This cake wasn't really a challenge, now that I look back on it. All it consisted of was combining the dry ingredients, pureeing the sugars and eggs, and mixing in the blended carrots until you can pour the batter into a sheet pan. After about forty minutes the cake was finished and I quickly whipped up a batch of the cream cheese icing. All in all, a great recipe and a great cake.

I think the thing I like about baking is that it's straightforward. They give you the instructions, step by step, all you have to do is follow them. In the words of Chef Gusteau "Anyone can cook!"