Carrot Cake Experiment

So Wei and I decided to try making THIS carrot cake. Carrot cake is my favorite cake of all time. Probably should have known to check out THIS carrot cake over at Foodie Friday instead. I’m terrible at baking, which is why you rarely see any baked goods here on Served. Here’s what happened in our experiment:

• Oh crap. No vegetable oil. Guess we’re compromising with olive oil. Bad start already. I hear olive oil tastes bad with baked goods.
• No food processor. Time to hand grate these carrots!
• No 9x13 pans, didn’t realize you could calculate different servings on AllRecipes either so we just split the recipe by half for our 9” round pan
• Got Mr. Fung to bring us some vegetable oil so we got two batches of carrot cake going
• These carrot cakes don’t look like what we eat. They look like curry cakes. I think we should have used brown sugar.

After eating a slice of both batches, one with olive oil and one with vegetable, there really wasn’t a difference after all that sugar and frosting, but it could taste way better. The moistness was there, but the flavoring wasn’t quite all there. I’ll try again soon…