Making carrot cake is all enjoyable and video games till you break a sweat and shred a knuckle grating all these carrots. Taking a web page from Brazilian bolo de cenoura, this sheet cake blends them proper into the batter as an alternative, leading to a sundown orange deal with, softly squidgy from the purée and remarkably straightforward to make. Chunks of chewy dried pineapple and candied ginger stand in for raisins, and the cream cheese frosting is gentle and ethereal, a mousse-like delicacy. Baked in a wholly unfussy 13×9″ pan, that is begging to be toted to a spring picnic within the park.
Consider this cake as a lesson in making good decisions. Select slim, tender carrots as an alternative of these huge, gnarly issues which can be typically woody and bitter. Choose sticky, sugar-plumped dried pineapple over the sun-dried, fruit leather-based model. And in the event you merely can’t discover dried pineapple, go for golden raisins in an equal amount.
