Carrot Cake, Joy of Cooking
The carrots. Sweet lord, the carrots. (for the record, this is like 1/20 of the number of carrots I have!) The CSA box is overflowing with carrots, and I love me a good project. So I am embarking on a carrot cake challenge: I have four cookbooks with carrot cake recipes, and I am endeavoring to find the best one. Cookbook #1: Joy of Cooking . If you're going to bake, always go back to the basics, right? And you cannot get more basic than Irma Rombauer. This carrot cake is a snap to make, and it comes out just fine in the cupcake paper cups, which is of course tricky. I passed these around at bookclub last week, and by and large the agreement was that they are more of a spice cake than a carrot cake. They were a little oily that first night, but they were actually quite good the next day (and the next)--the oil helped them stay moist. So if you're looking for a long-lasting spice cake wit...