Bliss-ful Carrot Cake
I love food. I love baking. Ergo, I love recipes.
Also, ergo, I need to exercise a lot more. Soon.
But before then, I’d like to share one of my favorite recipes with you, on this inaugural Favorite Recipes Friday post. My latest book, His Reluctant Rancher, continues the story of Three River Ranch. Two of the characters that populate this world are twins Bliss and Blythe, older women who wander around looking after people, scolding and feeding them as they see fit.
They also nurse a mysterious grudge between them, which will be revealed in time!
In His Reluctant Rancher, Bliss brings the Gamble family a carrot cake that she says is far better than the one Blythe serves at her bed & breakfast. Now, I don’t know Blythe’s recipe, but I do know this one, and it truly rocks. It’s the cake I made for birthdays when my girls were small. Because it’s so chock full of nutrition, I could relax in the knowledge that even if it’s all they ate all day, it would be okay.
“I Wish I Knew How to Quit You, Wheat!”
NOTE: since I first wrote this, I’ve read Wheat Belly, the premise of which is that wheat is responsible for most – if not all – of modern humanity’s pain and suffering. You know, diabetes, high cholesterol, painful joints, fuzzy brain, bad hair, bad moods, slow drains, slugs and possibly that irritating syndrome in which whatever line you’re in always moves slower than the ones beside you. Aaaaanyway. Wheat. I figure I’m carb sensitive but am not quite ready to part with it entirely. We’re working on a trial separation, a weaning situation. The recipe below has been modified to reflect this.
This is from the La Leche League Whole Foods Cookbook. Can you tell that my girls liked to work alongside me? I’ve modified it somewhat, as I almost always do, but here’s the gist:
2 1/4 cups whole wheat flour (I used 1 1/4 cups flour, and 1 cup coconut flour)
2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
3/4 cups oil (I use canola or olive)
3/4 cup liquid honey
5 eggs
3 cups grated carrot (or zucchini, which I haven’t tried, but would probably be great, too.)
1 cup canned unsweetened crushed pineapple (save the juice for the frosting)
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup shredded coconut
Mix dry ingredients. Mix wet ingredients. Stir it all together. Put into greased and floured pan of your choice. (This makes a fairly large cake.) Bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes. Cool, then frost with cream cheese icing. (Cream cheese, pineapple juice and enough icing sugar to make it taste good.) Then I covered the top with coconut because the frosting seemed a little gooey.
Boom. Bliss-ful Carrot Cake.
Interview and Kindle Giveaway!
- At March 11, 2013
- By Roxanne Snopek
- In Roxanne Writes On
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Hello friends! As many of you know, I’m deep in the midst of a multi-stop blog tour to celebrate the release of His Reluctant Rancher, the second in the Three River Ranch series. The tour-wide giveaway is a KINDLE – how cool is that? And you’ve got opportunities to enter at each blog stop. Some of the stops include reviews of the book; some are guest blog posts by me; some are interviews. The interviews are a lot of fun, and this one at Herding Cats & Burning Soup went particularly well. Good chemistry, I think! Sigh. How I love book bloggers…
Do take a look and let me know what you think. Don’t forget to enter to win! That’s my bribe. (And don’t feel that because you actually know me in, like, real life, that you shouldn’t enter. I’d LOVE to give my prize to someone I know in, like, real life. The “like” is a nod to my lovely daughter Pik, who cannot seem to utter a sentence without it. I mean, like, I like the word like too, but like, I don’t need to, like, use it in, like, every sentence.)
The rest of the tour is posted here, and goes something like this:
Official Blog Tour Stops
Wednesday, 2/27 – Laurie’s Thoughts and Reviews
Friday, 3/1 – What I’m Reading
Monday, 3/4 – Romancing Rakes for the Love of Romance
Wednesday, 3/6 – Bookin’ It Reviews
Friday, 3/8 – Herding Cats & Burning Soup
Monday, 3/11 – RhiReading
Tuesday, 3/12 – The Book Cellar
Thursday, 3/14 – Urban Girl Reader
Friday, 3/15 – Janna Shay’s Fair Play
Monday, 3/18 – My Reading Room
Wednesday, 3/20 – Whispers at Moonlight
Friday, 3/22 – Ramblings From This Chick
And for anyone wishing to, like, clean up their language, here is a step-by-step program:
Don’t forget to hit “LIKE” after reading.
Coming Spring 2013, the updated edition of Wildlife in the Kitchen
From Heritage House, the new improved version of Wildlife in the Kitchen, finally!