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myLot reputation of 97/100. thea09 (4154)   ranked 491 out of 1,076 in cake6 months ago

I bake a lovely carrot cake, not the American type with icing on, just a very moist carrot cake. I add grated orange and juice to it but for a change I would like to add something else but can't really think of what to put in apart from things like cinnamon and ginger. I want a change from orange but want to use something which will keep it equally moist. Anyone got any ideas?

 
 
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Riptide (1456) response was accepted on 7/15/2009.
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tags:  cake, carrot, orange, ginger
 
1. myLot reputation of 41/100. cookiecrumbles (229)   ranked 1,068 out of 1,076 in cake   6 months ago

Now I love to cook and have made several kinds of carrot cake. You can make it with adding raisins. You add about a cup of raisins if you like a bunch of them half a cup if you only want a bit of them. Now I have made it with the raisins and walnuts and shavings of carrot. Not much of the carrot shavings. I mean very finely thin carrot shavings. This is about a handful. About a quarter of a cup. Now you can put in about 3/4 of a cup of walnuts that have been chopped nice or pecans and add them to your cake. Now instead of making a thick frosting you can make a glaze instead out of confectioner sugar and maple sugar and melted butter. Hope this helps.


myLot reputation of 97/100. thea09 (4154)   ranked 491 out of 1,076 in cake  5 months ago

Thanks for the idea but I'm not too keen on nuts in cake. I guess it will have to be trial and error to find something else as good as orange to compliment the carrot.


myLot reputation of 41/100. cookiecrumbles (229)   ranked 1,068 out of 1,076 in cake  5 months ago

you don't like the raisins?

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2. myLot reputation of 55/100. Riptide (1456)   ranked 754 out of 1,076 in cake   5 months ago

Try to add some unsweetened applesauce. It will give it moistness without changing the flavor too much.


myLot reputation of 97/100. thea09 (4154)   ranked 491 out of 1,076 in cake  5 months ago

That sounds like a good idea to compliment the carrots, I will give it a try, thanks riptide.


myLot reputation of 55/100. Riptide (1456)   ranked 754 out of 1,076 in cake  5 months ago

You are quite welcome:)
Enjoy your cake! thumbup


myLot reputation of 93/100. Youreyes4Today (845)  4 months ago

Besides applesauce which is good in carrot cake, we also tried Applebutter. All I can say is try it. The added flavor with the moistness it adds, tastes wonderful.


myLot reputation of 97/100. thea09 (4154)   ranked 491 out of 1,076 in cake  4 months ago

Hello again, so would you just mash the apple into the butter for baking and add it like that to the rest of the ingredients or do it some different way. I like to throw everything in at once when I bake and then turn the mixer onto it all. I posted this a few months ago now and it has been way too hot for baking recently.


myLot reputation of 93/100. Youreyes4Today (845)  4 months ago

Applebutter is like a apple jelly that is made. My grandmother use to make it and can it every year for us. Awesome tasting, then my step dad was looking to add to his carrot cake and he tried it. I now use either Cinnamon applesauce or applebutter if I have it in the house. I would add it in along with every thing else.

lol I put all ingredients in the bowl first and then mix it to the consistency I want, then bake..


myLot reputation of 97/100. thea09 (4154)   ranked 491 out of 1,076 in cake  4 months ago

I can't actually see myself making apple jelly to be honest even though it sounds nice, apples are horrendously expensive here so I try to use things which are seasonal and falling off trees. I do make the best apple and cinnanom cake though. I'll be bringing fresh luscious purple figs home with me tonight and can't wait, straight from the tree. They don't sit around long enough to go in cakes thoughlol

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3. myLot reputation of 93/100. aweins (3601)   ranked 11 out of 1,076 in cake   4 months ago

hi dear, that is my style, just what i like and the way i bake. exactly means exactly. i also love the moist type nad i always bake the moist one by grating. the recipe of this was told to me by the wife of my general manager. when i use to work, and that is before marriage. it is quite a long time back. and after that i ahve baked it more than hundred times because it is loved by everyone. i dont even find it difficult.


myLot reputation of 97/100. thea09 (4154)   ranked 491 out of 1,076 in cake  4 months ago

Hello aweins, for some reason I never associated carrot cake with India, is it a traditional thing? I have baked nothing for the last two months which is unlike me but the tempreture is so extreme this year that it's just too hot to do it, I expect I'll resume in September. I had lots of cakes I'd baked earlier to start with, and then frozen. I find the carrot cake much easier now as I get my son to do the labourious bit of grating carrots.

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