Orange root vegetables are my good luck charms. The first cake I ever baked was carrot. Not knowing what I was doing, I attentively followed the recipe and baked a spell-binding success. Carrots have assumed iconic status in my home baking trajectory. This week, I used National Cook a Sweet Potato Day as an excuse… Continue reading Lucky orange

I adore carrot cake. That’s sufficient reason to get wildly excited about today’s National Carrot Cake Day. But it also compels a trip down memory lane because many of my baking milestones involve carrot cake. It was the first cake I ever made. I had no idea what I was doing or how the cake… Continue reading When carrots carry history