Fall Themed Carrot Cake

Can't wait to taste it...carrot cake made 100% from scratch to bring to the Greenblatts' football season kickoff party.

Recipe: Ruth Glass' Carrot Cake (Rane gave me this recipe a few years ago, Ruth Glass is the wife of owner of the Royals), with homemade cream cheese frosting and decorated with mellowcreme pumpkins. (Not decorated very well, granted, but decorated nonetheless).

I tweaked the recipe a bit:

• reduced oil from 1-1/2 c. to just under 1 c. (1-1/2 c. of oil is A LOT, and it made it kind of greasy the first time I made this recipe)
• added 1 t. nutmeg
• reduced nuts from 1 c. to 3/4 c. (because not everybody likes a lot of nuts. And yes, I'm giggling at that line.)
  
• used 1 t. each of baking powder and soda instead of 2 t. soda.

What I learned: the longer you screw around with frosting, the worse it starts to look. LOL.

Aisling's Birthday Weekend

We trekked to KC for Labor Day weekend to see the family and celebrate Aisling's birthday with a bumblebee-themed party...a lot of work, but a lot of fun! My cake turned out ok after a long, torturous battle with frosting that melted, wouldn't turn the right color, and came out of a battery-powered cookie press looking like ass. Thankfully Rane saved the day and fixed my screw-ups, and everyone had a good time and some yummy cupcakes and hot dogs!