Carrot cake with cumin-cinnamon frosting

Cakes
recipe

There's a restaurant in New York called Alice's Tea Cup which serves Alice In Wonderland-themed tea-type meals. It's a wee bit kitschy, but still cute, and the food is quite good. There's a particular sandwich they make that my sister and I both love, filled with goat cheese, olive tapenade, and cumin-glazed carrots. After eating this sandwich, my sister went home and recreated the carrots. I went home and made a cake. Make of that what you will-and also, make this cake, because it is wonderful. It's adapted just slightly from a recipe on 101 cookbooks (http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/carrot-cake-recipe.html) and it's really more like a carrot loaf, or a carrot quick-bread, since it's not very sweet. The frosting, though, is entirely my own invention and, if I do say so myself, is what really puts the flavors over the top. I'm one of those people who usually prefers the cake to the frosting and really, if given the choice, would take a muffin or a scone instead, but I could eat this stuff with a spoon. I've paired it with a carrot cake/loaf here, but I expect the frosting would go equally well with a zucchini or pumpkin bread, or even with a chocolate cake.



Oct. 1, 2021, 11:48 a.m.

0

7

0

Comments