I baked my first carrot cake with cream cheese frosting!

After eating so many carrot cakes from different bakers this week... I decided to bake one myself. Do I get sick of eating them? Nope, definitely not. Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is one of my all time favorite cake. I always wanted to try to bake one I usually didn't have the guts to try because I thought it would be quite difficult. I was wrong.

My first attempt to bake this cake is very successful. *grin* The cake turned out to be very yummy... but a little too sweet. My cream cheese frosting was initially not as thick as I expected it to be, but after my cake when into the fridge, the frosting harden and viola! Perfect! I will definitely bake this cake again. But next time more carrots and less sugar.


This is one small bottom section of the carrot cake I baked. I had to cut the cake horizontally because the cake was too thick. I was supposed to bake using two cake tins but I didn't have two that were the same size.


Ok ...more is less, and less is more. But this saying doesn't apply here. MORE IS YUMMY!


Spread and flatten the frosting on to the cake. When you think you have enough of the cream cheese frosting, place the top part of the cake on the frosting, forming a carrot cake cheese sandwich.


Actually, I wanted to frost the top and the sides of the cake but my mom came in and 'lent me her hand' and I don't need. ...See... this is why I like cooking along. I hate it when someone is behind me telling me what is 'right' and telling how to cook. "No not like that" "No you must add more" "You added this and that or not? Later no nice" Yeeash!

She stole a slice. ...and I ended up with "What am I going to do with this?" question in my head.


So I ended up with this. I placed the cake flat and covered the top with frosting to make it look like the carrot brownie sold in Secret Recipe. It looks unappetizing in the picture because I didn't spend time really spreading the frosting flat out... hehehe lazy already.


This cake I did nicely. ....but looks really weird here. It's like a block of butter with carrots ...LOL!