TWD: Carrot Cake

Tuesdays with Dorie: Bill's Big Carrot Cake

This week, I killed 2 birds with one stone- blog group (check!), birthday order (check!).  Although I made a few alterations to Dorie's recipe, this cake is amazing.  Now, I missed the taste test, the best part- boo, but the smell and moistness was incredible!  In my version, I ditched the nuts, raisins, and coconut.  However, I added an 8 oz. can of crushed pineapple, mmm delicious.  This cake was incredibly easy to set up and the cream cheese icing adds the perfect touch.

Cinnamon, pineapple, carrot???

yea that's right- delicious!  Well, in the cake at least =)

Crumb-coatin'

On its way to gorgeous =)

Perfection!

Time to decorate... my favorite part.

Celebration Carrot Cake

Sunday was my good friend Jesse's birthday.  At her request, I baked her a delicious carrot cake.  To be honest, this was my first carrot cake from scratch.  I was a little nervous, but the mini cake I baked off with the extra batter tasted fabulous.  I decided to leave out the nuts but throw in a can of crushed pineapple to keep it fresh and moist.  The cake is iced in vanilla bean cream cheese frosting and decorated with hand-made flowers and leaves of fondant.

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