Carrot Cake

Thanks to a lovely couple back home in PEI, I have had an undeniable desire for carrot cake for the longest time. I did have a little taste of some carrot cake when I was on vacation in PEI during a visit with some wonderful ladies that I used to work with. I thought this would satisfy my craving but unfortunately it did. So after a search for a carrot cake in multiple stores, I came to the conclusion that I was going to have to make one from scratch.

Yesterday we went to Yorkton for groceries so I made sure I had all of the necessary ingredients to make my very first carrot cake. My mom gave me a recipe for a carrot cake that we know is very tasty and I set out to make this scrumptious cake yesterday evening...with the help of my little assistant of course. I'm always nervous when I make something for the first time because I worry about how it will turn out. The cake took a little longer to cook than the recipe said but that's no big deal as every oven is a little different.

During the cooking process, I had taken my butter and cream cheese out of the fridge so that they'd soften in preparation for the making of the icing. After the cake had been cooling for a bit I decided I would make the icing and have it ready when it was time to ice the cake. After fighting with the icing for what seemed like forever, I came to the conclusion that it is much simpler to buy Betty Crocker icing at the store! The icing tasted fine but was not the proper consistency and my chef turned cop husband was at work and unable to provide me with assistance. I decided to put the icing in the fridge because it was a little...runny. By 12:30am I didn't want to wait any longer to try a piece of my cake so I iced the damn thing even though the icing was still not the proper consistency.

So, after weeks of wanting some carrot cake I finally had a big piece for a bedtime snack! The cake turned out just fair in my opinion but of course I ate it anyway. This morning Cory took a peek at my cake in the fridge and the first thing he said was, "All of your icing ran off your cake." Ugh! So then I had to explain the whole icing fiasco to him and he concluded that I was just being impatient and I should have waited to ice the cake today. Whatever!

P.S. I had another big piece for breakfast this morning...it's still just fair. LOL!