OK this is another Beach Cottage Dump and Go recipe…the BC recipes that make you look like a lovely mummy, without the effort, all heavily sought out, researched and tested by me, the no-effort-makes-all-around-you-swoon Queen
Miss Beach Cottage and I are big carrot cake lovers. Ooooh yeah baby.
And so when the kiddos were little and I was trying to find a few muffin/fairy/cup cake recipes to put under my belt so that the kiddos could have treats where I knew what the ingredients were and so that they didn’t think making cake was all because of Betty Crocker, I tried making carrot cake…
I attempted proper large carrot cake in a spring tin ONCE…..never, ever, ever, ever, ever again…big time failure…if you can visualize a not happy baker with a soggy in the middle cake, half stuck still to the pan, trying to cut it into ‘layers’ you might get the picture…
So when I saw recipes for the cupcake carrot cake version it was the carrot cake for me…
I still had little hope though to be honest and thought that the elusive carrot cake club was one I would never be part of. But when I made it and it actually worked I was gleeful…like dancing around gleeful…little cakes of carrot heaven
Oh and how we adore, falling down on the ground adore, cream cheese frosting…it seemed so intimidating to a British girl without much experience in this topping…but oh how easy it is to make this stuff…
In our researching for carrot cake recipes, we found that we liked not too much nuts, a good amount of spicy flavoury cinnamon and just enough on the carrot side of things…
This then is the tweaked-up-to-its-eyeballs BC Dump & Go Carrot Cupcake recipe…many recipes for this we have made call for all sorts of mixing in different bowls, creaming this with that, folding this in ‘carefully’ but we have got to just dumping in one bowl for low-wash-up, low effort, maximum happiness
…come in from school, work or whatever, park that broomstick far away, plaster on the happy mummy smile and make these for your kiddos, your husband, your next door neighbour who just had a baby…they will thank you and you will thank me hahaha
….you can literally have these in the oven in the time it takes to get the ingredients out and away again…a criteria I mark my baking recipes on
Beach Cottage Dump & Go Carrot Cupcakes
3/4 cup oil
1/2 cup brown sugar
pinch of salt
2 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
2 carrots
zest of lemon
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 cups self-raising flour
1. dump oil, brown sugar and eggs into mixing bowl and beat together
LOVE carrot cake.. and so naturally I would LOVE carrot cupcakes!! I am NOT a fan of putting raisens in mine so this recipe is a good one!! I like putting pecans in and on top of mine as well!…YUMMO!!! ‘
I want to make these but I’m not sure how to tweak the oven temp to use in the USA. 200 c would be 392 F but I wonder if I need to modify it due to location.
Carrot cake is my husband’s FAVOURITE – but I just can’t justify baking a whole cake now that it’s just the two of us. (oh, okay, I didn’t do it very often when it was four of us either!) This seems like the perfect solution. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
these look super yummy, I like sultanas or raisins in my carrot cake so I might sub the nuts for these, might be morning tea today minus the cream cheese topping because I used the last of it yesterday in a dip!
Just dropping back to say that I made these for morning tea, I used sultanas instead of nuts, my usual gluten free flour and I made a lemon butter icing for the top, but only because I used the last of the cream cheese yesterday – as I said before. They were so moist and delicious, everyone loved them!
I do have a never fail super easy HUGE carrot cake recipe for picnics, waterskiing days and the like but these gems look just the thing for times when quick ( and cute ) baking is required.
They look beautiful, but I always avoid making carrot cake due to all that grating of carrots. *Sigh.*
We don’t have a food processor, so it feels like lots of work to me.
Maybe I will relent and make them seeing as its school hols here and I have a bit more time on my hands.
Carrot cake! My favourite! I was just thinking how it was time for a new easy recipe. I cooked several of your previous recipes and the family always loved them … as did I, with the little cooking they took. Thanks!
I will have to try them because I am definetly a dump and bake kinda girl. I’ve been cooking/baking homemade, homegrown, from scratch meals for 25 yrs and easy peasy is my main squeeze. My family loves carrot cake…I have made it with very similar ingredients except I use 1/2 oil/1/2 apple sauce. That keeps the fat down, and the cake moist, and baked to perfection. I haven’t made one in a couple of years though…my organic pumpkin muffins have taken preference. I love love love cream cheese frosting with both lemon and vanilla. Your photography is just lovely!
Wonderfully easy will be making these hopefully on the weekend. I too am a carrot cake lover though never have attempted it myself for safety reasons…Yum… Love your recepies Sarah, by the way your cheese and herb muffins were the first thing to go at the kids birthday party lol, gave credit where it was due . I share your gladness that it’s friday Sarah!!! I love fridays! They are always full of excitment for what may lay ahead in the not too distant weekend .
Also you need to invest about 10.00 in a Trifle Bowl. Its a deep dish on a pedastal that has saved my arse many times when I had what I call an “earthquake cake disaster” fallen in other words. Just spoon out the fallen cake into the bowl…big chunks, add in some big heaping spoons of icing, more cake, more icing, you get the picture. Top with some kind of whipped cream and all will be fine and dandy. Also is good for layered salad, chopped up store bought cake, whipped cream, fruit in layers. So easy and quick they will think your Betty Crocker.
I too love carrot cup-cakes and it’s my secret weapon to get some veggies into the kids
By the way, I talked about your blog in my recent post. Thank you for being such great inspiration for my journey ahead.
Have a great weekend. Nina
Hi Sarah
Greetings from a chilly Cape Town, South Africa.
Looks like a stunning recipe – definitely going to give it a try!
xxx
Adri
PS: Love your blog!
Wonderful, this is the perfect way to introduce my kids to carrot cake. And I too would like to believe since it has veggie in it then it must be good for them too.
Looks and sounds easy peasy….. the same kinda easy peasy as my muffin recipe. Will give it a go for sure.
I made an embarrassing mistake using Ricotta cheese instead of cream cheese for the creamy icing on cupcakes….eeekkk or I should say bleerk! (not nice at all)
Have a good one Sarah. jojo3b:)
My hubby would love this Sarah! I’ll have to make these soon. I love that they are a cupcake version.
Today I am doing blackberry pie to celebrate my son’s first day back to school, of his senior year.
Hugs and God bless!!
PS I am so glad you did this in the “cups” version. My other australian friend does the metric and I just can’t get the hang of it.
We Looooooove carrot cake in the States, but I have never seen a one bowl easy recipe and cupcakes are the best as I had the same
results when trying to make a proper carrot CAKE….Thank you for the recipe!!
Ooh carrot cake is my absolute favourite!!! My Aunty has THE BEST RECIPE IN THE WORLD and years ago I begged her to give it to me….like yours Sarah mine was a dismal failure. I am so trying your dump and go carrot cakes….my kind of baking
I am LOVING your blog! Love the cupcakes, absolutely loved it when you said “rummaging in blossom” on your last post , loving the photography … and I just finished reading your “story” and guess what? I loved that too. I also recently moved and downsized. Thanks for all the inspiration.
Here’s a “Cut & Construct” cake recipe I have made. It’s a LOT easier than it sounds the first time you read it.
Ingredients
1 square supermarket plain sponge (The purists can bake their own.)
300mL thickened cream
1/4 cup Nutella (chocolate hazelnut spread)
100g dark chocolate, chopped
Roasted chopped hazelnuts and milk chocolate curls, to decorate
Method
Trim edges of the sponge with a serrated knife.
Cut the sponge in a rectangle roughly the size of a loaf cake tin (approx 12x20cm, but feel free to experiment).
Cut sponge horizontally so you then have 3 layers.
Beat 1/2 the cream till firm peaks form.
Spread one piece of sponge with half the Nutella and half the whipped cream.
Place another piece of sponge on top. Then spread on top the remaining Nutella and whipped cream.
Place third piece of sponge on top.
Refrigerate.
To make icing put dark chocolate and remaining cream in a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Stir until melted and smooth. Refrigerate, stirring occasionally until thickened.
Pour icing over sponge layer cake. Decorate with roasted hazelnut pieces and chocolate curls.
Refrigerate until set.
Hi Sarah! Yummy! These little cup cakes are so pretty and look so good! Now as far as a recipe goes – I love to dump!
Beautiful photos, as always. Your blog is just so beautiful.
Be a sweetie and thank you for popping in to see me.
Be a sweetie,
Shelia
Made these yesterday with my 5 yr old and they are delicious. Always on the look out for one bowl recipes as baking with a 5 yr old can be a bit tricky otherwise – this way she can measure and do everything herself, its not too complicated for her.
So thanks for that, and I’m off to have another one!
Ah Sarah, you have done it again, you have made my life easy….we baked these on Sunday and was a huge hit with my 8 (nearly 9!) year old and my 5 year old. Actually also a hit with my hubby, so we had to hide them from him so there was enough to take to school! We didn’t do the icing as I brought the wrong cheese (!) but they were still yummy! Will definatly add them to our baking for school (minus the nuts) recipes! Also made the blueberry muffins the other day – also beautiful! Thanks so much!
I made these carrot cupcakes today when I unexpectedly had some time at home. They are fabbo! On the instructions of dd, 7, we coloured the icing blue and I put gold balls on top!! I will definitely make these again! I love making muffins and cakes. I used walnuts rather than mixed nuts as that what I had to hand.
A couple of questions though – how many does your recipe make – mine made 8 today? Also, you said two carrots – how big are the carrots? My ones from our organic box seemed a bit small so I used three which seemed to work ok…..
I love your blog – I blame you for filling my house with stuff from trademe (nz version of ebay) which I intend to paint white but haven’t quite got around to yet!!!! I have bought more furniture in the last few months than I have in years – dh is delighted as he thinks I am a “minimalist” as I don’t usually have huge amounts of furniture in my house as I prefer a cleaner look……
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G'day ladies, let's have a Too Easy Beach Cottage recipe yeah? The original place for Too Easy Recipes on the web ;-)
So, after my last salad went down a storm in my inbox, that's here if you missed it, I had to do this one seeing as I make it most weeks.
There is a problem with this salad and kiddos though...it looks, well, it looks, kinda yucky...but once they try it, they'll ask if and when they are next having it....at least that's what happens in this ratty old cottage...but I must interject here that my kiddos are 'good eaters'? ...they didn't get a choice in that ;-)
Now, stop, don't start running and hitting that next on your blog reading list, pulses are your best friend in the Too Easy Dump & Go kitchen for the busy mum, or busy anyone for that matter...that reminds me I must blog the garlic canneloni Go To for when you forgot to do dinner, feel like a bath but have three ravenous young Beach Cottage Kiddos on your hands...another day.
I am almost embarrassed to tell you how easy this is, we have it so much that I always have a couple, make that six, cans of lentils around and a jar of goat's cheese in the fridge...the great thing about this is that it's all too easy to get ready in just a few minutes, but it looks, tastes and seems like you did oh so very much more than that.
You can obviously too change it up a bit depending on what you have to hand in your kitchen, and I must say that is how I settled on this version...because one day when I made it I didn't have enough Parsley in the garden and so I chucked in some basil too, and liked the Summer feel it added.
I think of this as being a rather posh salad, not sure why, because it couldn't really be further from the truth...the great thing is that it works so well for an average run of the mill day, (when I did this for this blog post, it was a hot Sydney Sunday and I did it just simply to go with Rosemary & Garlic stuffed pork, you can see that pork here),
...but just as easily it works on a regular old Wednesday night when you have lost all enthusiasm for rustling up yet another meal, or indeed on Saturday night, when your friends are on their way over for dinner and you my friend, are in your new vintage inspired clawfoot bathtub (that's me in a few weeks time, k?) without any clothes on, a tipple and no idea what to cook for dinner...
I have a complicated and ever-changing relationship with goat's cheese...it never fails me in its performance and it never fails to impress me (you can find out a bit more on what I like in food here if you like) and I kinda collect it...because it's very easy to collect and has a fairly long fridge-life, I love trying out different ones and there's not many things I love more than goat's cheese on sourdough...but I think the best thing about it is not thinking about it exclusively in the toast/salad department...I've stuffed it in chicken and all sorts of things as a last minute and it's been fab.
But let's get down to the nitty gritty of this super salad that makes you look like an angel who has been on her knees all day scrubbing the front step when really you are in the digital world and spent most of ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, howdy, howdy howdy today for a Beach Cottage Too Easy recipe.
If you like cake, cream, sugar and chocolate, make this.
This is, rather than a recipe, a putting it together...as you know I am no dessert maker, but, I do make quite a few sweet things, because, somehow I have ended up with kiddos, who in their roles as offspring, believe that part of the deal, is that not only do I feed them a home-cooked meal with a few homegrown ingredients in there, yes, they also believe that dessert and not the kind that comes out of a packet is included too in this All-Inclusive Deal they call Parenthood.
So, this, for sure, is no culinary masterpiece, but if you are looking for something that is so very easy, dump-able, uses everyday ingredients and at the same time makes you look like you spent hours pulling things together plus tastes good....well, then this is for you.
Best though, you don't make this for yourself, if you have spent the most part of your week sitting on your derriere reading blogs...this my friend ain't low in the calories department...if, however, you are treating yourself to a delight in a mason jar, this is so for you.
I first had a version of this when at dinner back in Old Blighty with a girl, I once, in another life, caught the train up from our village to London with...she was a funny thing really...I am not quite sure how we got on...she was kinda prissy and a bit bothered by too much...I would run to the train flustered, having got up late, and she would have a spreadsheet on the train times, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, a few years later when we both had bambinos, I bumped into her again and we met up for playdates and dinner sometimes....this particular night, after a lovely meal she served up little bowls of creamy, cakey fruity stuff topped off with chocolate flake...it was delicious!
She didn't serve hers in little jars like this, hers were in a champagne glass and not quite so layered as these ones, plus she used tinned fruit not fresh or frozen.
Years later when said offspring kept requesting dessert, one day I wangled together somehow these from what was around in the fridge and they've been with us ever since.
Most likely, if you ever come here for dinner, and shock horror, you dont' bring the dessert with you, this, if you are lucky, will be what you will get.
Throw it all together, sprinkle a lil bit of chocolate on the top and the blog reading past-time you so rudely left in order to make this, is my friend, your oyster.
Beach Cottage Too Easy Layered Raspberry, Cream & Sponge Dessert
1 small maderia or butter cake or a pack of cupcakes (or of course make your own)
1/2 cup whipping cream
1/2 cup cream cheese
1/4 cup sugar
8 tbsp fruit
1 x chocolate Flake or chocolate bar for grating
1. beat the cream cheese until it is soft
2. whip the cream until soft peaks form
3. combine & add the sugar through
4. cut your cake into portions
& layer into the bottom of your jar
5. add a tablespoon of fruit
6. layer on top the cream combo
7. repeat
8. grate chocolate or Flake on top
*Beach Cottage Recipe Notes : this is just a guide really, you can use any cream that you have on hand...I have made this with clotted cream (don't even go there unless you want to seriously get these babies on your thighs), with double cream and I have even, in desperate times squirted in that, ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, well I thought it was time for some blogging tips here today, alongside a few nice flowers and shells ;-)
I was recently part of a blogger discussion group over at Kidspot and a couple of hours later had a few questions from girls who couldn't make it to the live chat, one was on my Facebook page and one via email, the Facebook one I will deal with in another Real Girl Blogging Tips post...the email one asked me what essentials do I think every blog needs?
Well I have been around here for a while now doing the blogging thing, so I should know this, yeah and I mused this on my walk by the sea this morning I thought well what do you only need?
...I think it is really very easy when blogging, whether or not you are blogging up there in the lofty heights of the Super Bloggers or you are just dipping your toe in the water, to get side-tracked by 101 million different things that are 'essential' to your blog and if you are someone like me who actually gets a thrill from reading blogging tips then you are in an even worse place because you will find yourself literally buzzing with these essential things to add/do/implement on your blog.
However, walking along, gulping down that brisk sea air today (no sunshine & clouds) I thought you actually don't need any of that professional blogging stuff to be successful...but there are a few things that are pretty much crucial ...and once I started to think about it I got it down to about 5 - these are the only things that you need to concentrate on...once you have read through take a look at some of the big girl's blogs...you'll see that actually they don't have bundles of stuff on their blogs...but they do have all of these...
So here are my top things that your blog must have
1. About Page
There are all sorts of About Pages out there, and if you search on it there are many different tips and ideas for what to have on yours
Whatever blogging platform you use, adding an About Me Page is easy, quick and simple and will do everything to grow your blog.
I like a long-ish About Page, I am inherently nosy and I like to know a bit more about the person but at the least you should have on it your name and where you are located. I also think a photo is good too...over the last year or so I think this has become more important in blogging - if you are hesitant about that as I was, you can try using sunglasses or a behind shot until you get comfortable.
There is nothing worse than stumbling upon a new blog and going to find out more to only be faced with a piddly little one liner About Me Page...well there is something worse, not having one at all!
2. Contact Page
The chances are someone, somewhere will want to contact you and you will be surprised what lands in your inbox once you put yourself out there on the world wide web with a blog.
Many bloggers also use this page to include details for PR's/brands that may want to contact them and some bloggers put their stats on there too.
A short, to the point and simple Contact Page works really well...whenever I have wanted to contact another blogger I am often very busy and have limited time so I don't want to hang around sifting through information looking for an email address, so concise and clear ...
G'day lovely Beach Cottage lovelies.
So, yeah, so on a roll people, so on a roll.
I feel kinda home accessory wired right now.
I am always telling people, if anyone ever listens, that blogging is all about passion, not that sort of passion, but about passion that makes one tick.
Things like this make me tick tick boom.
I love finding things that suit my budget and let me treat my home but look amazing too.
So without further adieu I introduce you, ladies of the beach, to the blue vintage glasses that I have been stroking for about a week or two now...
These glasses are from a little boutique I sometimes happen upon, this boutique sells also pet accessories, carpet cleaner, bras and compost...it's quite unique though.
And, thanks to my friend Marnie (she blogs over here, go take a look at her praying position, interesting), who just so happens to be one day having me over for a lil' Greek dinner, has let me in on the fact that we call Kmart....The KMart...with an accent ....as in 'I love The KMart'...just like her MIL does. Oh yeah. Love that.
So I have had my eye on reproduction vintage glass blue wine glasses and being trying to find real true vintage blue glasses for like ever.
Oh yes I have spied them in Frenchy boutiques, I have lusted after them in stores that I shouldn't even enter and I have put them back pretty quickly in those shops with the hand-written price tags. C'mon, you know the ones.
And, though all of the above have tempted me, muchly, really, even with my wardrobe stashing skills I just thought that, actually, I'd rather be saving that casherooni for our next trip overseas..
Hello The KMart.
Tick Tick Boom
Vintage style blue wine glasses.
Do not come to my old place and think you might pick up one of these and smile with pleasure at their handblown quality, their weight, and be secretly jealous that my wine glasses cost more than your car...friend, that would not happen...these do not feel like that...indeed these in a funny way reminded me of my baby girl, she was a tiny little thing, with stick legs, the tinsssssssiest ankles and wrists you ever did see, she slept sideways in her cot wedged in between rolled up blankets and would only settle attached to Mr Beach Cottage or I or a (dirty) pj top of mine scrunched up under her nose...the first few times I picked her up to cuddle, being used to Honeymoon Baby who weighed in at 9lbs at birth and has never really stopped growing, I nearly threw her little bird-cum-rat down covered body over my shoulder.
These glasses are like that...be careful or you might lose your wine down the front of your shirt.
But oh baby, we are not talking picking up here, we are not talking quality, we are not talking house accessory snobbery.
Beach Cottage ladies, we are talking aesthetics.
And this is what I need in my cottage.
Blue vintage style glass, paired with coastal / nautical / beach stuff on my deck.
It's The KMart.
Tune in tomorrow, tomorrow, I have more budget foofing for your home, or maybe it will be the dress that wraps me up in supermarket-chic and makes me feel like me again.
Good Day to you my friends, wanna come hang out on my deck, talk house accessories, The KMart and drink some wine from blue glasses?
Sarah
breathtakingly beautiful photos!! LOVE your blog
LOVE carrot cake.. and so naturally I would LOVE carrot cupcakes!! I am NOT a fan of putting raisens in mine so this recipe is a good one!! I like putting pecans in and on top of mine as well!…YUMMO!!! ‘
I want to make these but I’m not sure how to tweak the oven temp to use in the USA. 200 c would be 392 F but I wonder if I need to modify it due to location.
Carrot cake is my husband’s FAVOURITE – but I just can’t justify baking a whole cake now that it’s just the two of us. (oh, okay, I didn’t do it very often when it was four of us either!) This seems like the perfect solution. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
I LOOOVEEEE carrot cake!! These look so lovely, thank you for sharing the recipe! I need to try these
xoxx Linda
Carrot cake is one of my favourites because its got vegetable in it so it can’t be that bad for you….right?
Hi Sarah
I just want to say you are “Queen of the easy bakes” and that should be the title of your new cookbook
have a wonderful day ahead
x
Loulou
http://hereiamloulou.blogspot.com/
these look super yummy, I like sultanas or raisins in my carrot cake so I might sub the nuts for these, might be morning tea today minus the cream cheese topping because I used the last of it yesterday in a dip!
Just dropping back to say that I made these for morning tea, I used sultanas instead of nuts, my usual gluten free flour and I made a lemon butter icing for the top, but only because I used the last of the cream cheese yesterday – as I said before. They were so moist and delicious, everyone loved them!
seeing as i’m on a shake diet thingy this week… this looks beyond…sigh…
I must go now…
love all you do Sarah… xxo, Kim
How fantastic Sarah,
I do have a never fail super easy HUGE carrot cake recipe for picnics, waterskiing days and the like but these gems look just the thing for times when quick ( and cute ) baking is required.
Definately be giving these babies a go !!
Have a lovely weekend xx
They look beautiful, but I always avoid making carrot cake due to all that grating of carrots. *Sigh.*
We don’t have a food processor, so it feels like lots of work to me.
Maybe I will relent and make them seeing as its school hols here and I have a bit more time on my hands.
I don’t have a food processor either Kat…
I just used a cheese grater…doesn’t take long at all….and coming from the most impatient person in the world you’ll know it’s true…promise!!!
the whole thing is just dumped and mixed in the bowl…that’s why I love it
x
looks so yummy! i can smell and taste them via the computer
Carrot cake! My favourite! I was just thinking how it was time for a new easy recipe. I cooked several of your previous recipes and the family always loved them … as did I, with the little cooking they took. Thanks!
Oh yum!!!! And because I’m doing the hcg diet right now & can’t have them, they look 10x as good!!! lol!!!
I will have to try them because I am definetly a dump and bake kinda girl. I’ve been cooking/baking homemade, homegrown, from scratch meals for 25 yrs and easy peasy is my main squeeze. My family loves carrot cake…I have made it with very similar ingredients except I use 1/2 oil/1/2 apple sauce. That keeps the fat down, and the cake moist, and baked to perfection. I haven’t made one in a couple of years though…my organic pumpkin muffins have taken preference. I love love love cream cheese frosting with both lemon and vanilla. Your photography is just lovely!
Love that switch out applesauce for oil too !
love that idea for the applesauce..thanks x
Wonderfully easy will be making these hopefully on the weekend. I too am a carrot cake lover though never have attempted it myself for safety reasons…Yum… Love your recepies Sarah, by the way your cheese and herb muffins were the first thing to go at the kids birthday party lol, gave credit where it was due
. I share your gladness that it’s friday Sarah!!! I love fridays! They are always full of excitment for what may lay ahead in the not too distant weekend 
.
If you love carrot cake you will surely love this cake..canned pineapple and smashed bananas.and you dont have to use the nuts in the icing…I dont.
http://www.joyofbaking.com/HummingbirdCake.html
Also you need to invest about 10.00 in a Trifle Bowl. Its a deep dish on a pedastal that has saved my arse many times when I had what I call an “earthquake cake disaster” fallen in other words. Just spoon out the fallen cake into the bowl…big chunks, add in some big heaping spoons of icing, more cake, more icing, you get the picture. Top with some kind of whipped cream and all will be fine and dandy. Also is good for layered salad, chopped up store bought cake, whipped cream, fruit in layers. So easy and quick they will think your Betty Crocker.
Yum, my kind of baking, can’t wait to give them a try, carrot cake is a big fav here but always diddly to make…
Tracey
hubby likes carrot cake think i will have to do some baking this weekend.
I am going to have a crack at these this weekend, I will let you know how they go.
Sarah, I’m going to make these tomorrow…. Thanks.
I quite simply adore carrot cake…. And the mini version will suit us all perfectly
♥ Susan
I too love carrot cup-cakes and it’s my secret weapon to get some veggies into the kids
By the way, I talked about your blog in my recent post. Thank you for being such great inspiration for my journey ahead.
Have a great weekend. Nina
Hi Sarah
Greetings from a chilly Cape Town, South Africa.
Looks like a stunning recipe – definitely going to give it a try!
xxx
Adri
PS: Love your blog!
Wonderful, this is the perfect way to introduce my kids to carrot cake. And I too would like to believe since it has veggie in it then it must be good for them too.
Looks and sounds easy peasy….. the same kinda easy peasy as my muffin recipe. Will give it a go for sure.
I made an embarrassing mistake using Ricotta cheese instead of cream cheese for the creamy icing on cupcakes….eeekkk or I should say bleerk! (not nice at all)
Have a good one Sarah. jojo3b:)
Yum perfect for fall and not to many for a small family. Thanks Sarah!
My kind of recipe-dump and go! I just can’t get over your photographs. I’m both shamed and inspired
My hubby would love this Sarah! I’ll have to make these soon. I love that they are a cupcake version.
Today I am doing blackberry pie to celebrate my son’s first day back to school, of his senior year.
Hugs and God bless!!
PS I am so glad you did this in the “cups” version. My other australian friend does the metric and I just can’t get the hang of it.
Fiona, like the sound of blackberry pie!!! yum
I only do cups…so much easier than getting a scale out imho xx
gorgeous photos and inspiration, sarah! love love love to bake and am drooling.
michele
We Looooooove carrot cake in the States, but I have never seen a one bowl easy recipe and cupcakes are the best as I had the same
results when trying to make a proper carrot CAKE….Thank you for the recipe!!
Baked these this afternoon for a hen party…OOOOHHHH they’re WONDERFUL!! Thanks loads!
so glad you liked them Deborah….so easy!!!
Ooh carrot cake is my absolute favourite!!! My Aunty has THE BEST RECIPE IN THE WORLD and years ago I begged her to give it to me….like yours Sarah mine was a dismal failure. I am so trying your dump and go carrot cakes….my kind of baking
These look delicious, thank you. I shall give them a go.
I am LOVING your blog! Love the cupcakes, absolutely loved it when you said “rummaging in blossom” on your last post , loving the photography … and I just finished reading your “story” and guess what? I loved that too. I also recently moved and downsized. Thanks for all the inspiration.
Mary
hey Mary!
welcome to BC Land, thanks for the comment
sarahx
Dump & burn..I mean bake, yes BAKE. I can do this!
You have forgotten the most important thing! The frosting to cake ratio is much higher with a cupcake!
Here’s a “Cut & Construct” cake recipe I have made. It’s a LOT easier than it sounds the first time you read it.
Ingredients
1 square supermarket plain sponge (The purists can bake their own.)
300mL thickened cream
1/4 cup Nutella (chocolate hazelnut spread)
100g dark chocolate, chopped
Roasted chopped hazelnuts and milk chocolate curls, to decorate
Method
Trim edges of the sponge with a serrated knife.
Cut the sponge in a rectangle roughly the size of a loaf cake tin (approx 12x20cm, but feel free to experiment).
Cut sponge horizontally so you then have 3 layers.
Beat 1/2 the cream till firm peaks form.
Spread one piece of sponge with half the Nutella and half the whipped cream.
Place another piece of sponge on top. Then spread on top the remaining Nutella and whipped cream.
Place third piece of sponge on top.
Refrigerate.
To make icing put dark chocolate and remaining cream in a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Stir until melted and smooth. Refrigerate, stirring occasionally until thickened.
Pour icing over sponge layer cake. Decorate with roasted hazelnut pieces and chocolate curls.
Refrigerate until set.
alison
Just popped over from Whisperwood!!!
very nice photos;-)
Hi Sarah! Yummy! These little cup cakes are so pretty and look so good! Now as far as a recipe goes – I love to dump!
Beautiful photos, as always. Your blog is just so beautiful.
Be a sweetie and thank you for popping in to see me.
Be a sweetie,
Shelia
One of my fav sweets!
Always looking for a shortcut!
Your photos are lovely and inspiring!
Excellent Sarah!
Made these yesterday with my 5 yr old and they are delicious. Always on the look out for one bowl recipes as baking with a 5 yr old can be a bit tricky otherwise – this way she can measure and do everything herself, its not too complicated for her.
So thanks for that, and I’m off to have another one!
xx Shani
glad you enjoyed them Sani…perfect to make with little ones x
Ah Sarah, you have done it again, you have made my life easy….we baked these on Sunday and was a huge hit with my 8 (nearly 9!) year old and my 5 year old. Actually also a hit with my hubby, so we had to hide them from him so there was enough to take to school! We didn’t do the icing as I brought the wrong cheese (!) but they were still yummy! Will definatly add them to our baking for school (minus the nuts) recipes! Also made the blueberry muffins the other day – also beautiful! Thanks so much!
you are so welcome, glad you enjoyed it!
x
Hi Sarah
I made these carrot cupcakes today when I unexpectedly had some time at home. They are fabbo! On the instructions of dd, 7, we coloured the icing blue and I put gold balls on top!! I will definitely make these again! I love making muffins and cakes. I used walnuts rather than mixed nuts as that what I had to hand.
A couple of questions though – how many does your recipe make – mine made 8 today? Also, you said two carrots – how big are the carrots? My ones from our organic box seemed a bit small so I used three which seemed to work ok…..
I love your blog – I blame you for filling my house with stuff from trademe (nz version of ebay) which I intend to paint white but haven’t quite got around to yet!!!! I have bought more furniture in the last few months than I have in years – dh is delighted as he thinks I am a “minimalist” as I don’t usually have huge amounts of furniture in my house as I prefer a cleaner look……
Mary x
Oh! I’m in love
This is awesome.
These carrot cake cupcakes seem too easy not to try! Really loving your dump and go recipes:)
I just made these…..sooooo delicious and easy. Everyone in my house is happy!!!