Carrot Cake for rabbits everywhere

There is this great little vegetarian restaurant in Victoria, BC called Rebar that I try to visit every time I get the chance over to the island.  I immediately purchased their cookbook when it came out and find it a great go to on my shelf.  When my uncle's recent 70th birthday required a cake, I found myself eagerly accepting the challenge.  With a family chocked full of bakers I would be up against some serious taste buds.  Sifting, blending, icing and decorating = Amazing!  With rave review all round I was now officially in charge of the carrot cake for any family gathering.  My secret, fresh pineapple chopped by hand and real Belgian white chocolate in the icing.  With delicious flavours like this it will make even your pickiest eaters want their carrot intake!

Don't judge a cake by it's frosting...

I saw this beautiful, heavenly looking cake online and thought it would make a great birthday cake for my husband's 33rd birthday. It was a simple vanilla cake with an italian meringue icing and I just couldn't resist the shiny, glossy, eat me look about it. Not usually one for the 'plain jane' flavours I added some homemade strawberry preserves a friend gave me to the middle icing layer for some extra oomph. The next morning I sent it to work for e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e in the office to eat...
I texted him later in the day to see how it went and this was his reply... "the icing was really good, the cake was really dry." You know I don't really mind having a baking disaster at home, but a public baking disaster is something else. I guess it is impossible to have a perfect product every time and I have come to accept that. However, this new found acceptance did not stop me from hunting down the most moist cake recipe I could find, baking it in a 35C kitchen and sending it to work with him this morning as an apology for the dry and sawdusty, albeit pretty, cake with the really tasty icing. A big THANKS to the Rebar in Victoria for their Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese-White Chocolate Icing recipe. Today's text reads like this, "cake is very yummy, compliments all around." I know, I am a kitchen perfectionist! Call me crazy, I need the whole cake to taste good, not just the icing.