It’s interesting what items on this website generate email. The top one is rules for two-player Euchre, from which I get an average of a message every couple weeks. The second, I think, is the cake page. Since the run-up to the wedding, I haven’t been baking a lot of cakes. I cook all the time, and make various desserts, but I haven’t been making layer cake on a regular basis.
That may change. We were at a party last week, and I met someone there who, I was told, made a carrot cake to die for. I talked to him about it, and he was not only really nice, but he gave me the recipe. Last night, I made the cake. It’s fabulous. It is, I must admit, not as amazing as the one served at Lula (made by Maude’s, a local organic bakery), which is one of the best cakes I’ve ever tasted. But it is excellent. I’m going to try, over time, to figure out how to make a cake as good as Maude’s. I suspect I’m probably not careful enough in my cooking to really get it, but now that I have a really good carrot cake recipe, I stand a chance. And if I don’t figure it out, this recipe is still wonderful, so who cares?
If I were eating cake when I read this, and if it were possible to spurt cake out of my nostrils, I would have.
Tell you what, instead of trying to fine tune this recipe, I'll try to invent a cake printer. Deal?
Posted by Joe at February 19, 2006 11:30 PMDearest Joe, my closest and most cherished friend. I miss your delightful sense of humor, invigorating presence, charming persona, and intriguing conversation. It is with virtually intolerable anticipation that I await our next get together. I will attempt to be patient until our next rendezvous. I implore you, let it not fall on too distant a moment. Fervently waiting with baited breath, Antje.
PS - bring some (*$&#(* cake along, why don't you?!
Dearest, most esteemed Antje,
Your elocution may be superb (and bilingual), your flattery boundless, but alas, your timing has fallen short of ideal. By the time you see me, the cake will have disappeared. However, I will bear in mind the desires you have expressed when next I craft such a confection as this.
Posted by Joe at February 21, 2006 11:45 PMCRAP!
Posted by Antje at February 22, 2006 3:44 PMThere is no one who could covet carrot cake as much as Jeff! And the friends, I can clear a room by announcing carrot cake is in the kitchen. Not a crumb left by the time some get there.
how about posting the recipe? Or sending it along...
We are looking forward to seeing you two!
And, you tempt us so with pictures of cake but no actual cake? Oh the humanity! Especially for us so trapped in the Mid-Atlantic, non-descent carrot cake part of the world.
We here, in some sort of carot-cake hell, trapped in the furthest place away from the light of good carrot cake.
I could cry.
But seriously, I have eaten many cakes made by the JC Cake Co. and I suspect that Maudes' cake is, at best, not better than yours. You are, in the cake department, like some sort of vengence-less Inago Mantoya. No lie.
-jbs
Send all your cakes, and a SASE to:
Posted by carot-Cake-a-holic at February 19, 2006 7:17 PMCakes
C/O Cakeless in Virginia
PO Box 168574138475-103848578579247
Centreville, VA, 20121