Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Prior to Easter, the food blog world was flooded with cute, pastel-candy-inspired-embellished baked goods. There were so many ideas for Easter themed baked goods, it was a tad overwhelming. Personally, I'd rather eat something that tastes good, then looks pretty when decorated. Hence, I made carrot cake.

This carrot cake is absolutely delicious. It is light, moist, and includes only the essential ingredients. This recipe is from one of my mom's friends, who I will call "D." Over spring break my mom brought bake a couple of D's carrot cake slices home. I ended up eating all of them over the course of a couple evenings.

Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake

Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake

During my first year of college, my roommate and I shared an addiction for two things: coffee and coffee cake. We had this obsession for finding the circular streusel covered pastries in all of the dining facilities that would accept our Dining Dollars (a great and not-so-healthy-way of using up our dining plan!). We were successful in our search to say the least; and I was also successful in contributing to my "freshman ten." Nevertheless, I haven't been scavenging for these delicious pastries nearly as much as I did my first year, but that didn't stop me for searching for recipes to make a homemade version instead. 

I made a 9x13 pan of this cake a week ago on Monday, and it was all gone by Wednesday. Simply, this recipe was a huge hit amongst my friends.