Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Too Much Cinnamon!

I hope you are enjoying this week.  Tomorrow is my mister's birthday and I am cooking a carrot cake as we speak.  I use to bake a lot but don't anymore.  It's a good thing because I forget what I am doing and have to reread the recipe over and over!  This cake will be at least interesting. It called for vegetable oil, I don't use vegetable oil, I have olive oil but that doesn't taste good in a baked cake so I substituted butter. I think I added too much cinnamon.  Then I added cloves and the top came off, spilling too much in the mixture.  The nutmeg had holes too big and too much came out ~ so I think we all get the big picture now!  But he likes cloves and nutmeg so we will see.  ; )   I am starting to smell the cake and it does at least smell good.  He's a good sport and is subjected to all sorts of torture by me!  I had to up the "Cool Dude" look for him in this pic taken last winter. Gotta go, it's time to take the cake out of the  oven, cross your fingers for me!   I hope you have a great rest of the week!






Jan








4 comments:

  1. Hi Jan and happy birthday to your hubby! Hope the cake turns out good. I love me some carrot cake.
    Be a sweetie,
    Shelia ;)

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    1. Thank you Sheila! It was an absolute disaster. It is black and flat and has a horrible texture to it. So I will make another one. I have made carrot cake every year for thirty years and every year of late, I have messed up the carrot cakes. Last year he requested quite a few and after ruining my first half dozen the others were barely acceptable. Ooh, I wish he liked a different flavor! Thanks for coming by!

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  2. Happy Birthday to your hubs! I feel your pain, I cannot bake, much to the shame of (some) members of my family, but I do love some carrot cake.! Hope y'all have a great Birthday!

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    1. Thank you "Princess"! I am going to make another one, not willing to be defeated. : )

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