It means carrot cake! My favourite!!

I wrote a series of blogs about cakes over a week, and her’s what I wrote for Wednesday:

Thinking about Wednesday, named after Woden the Norse god, it’s not necessarily a great day to be born, Wednesday’s child is full of woe… and the Irish and Scottish name for the day refers to fasting… not a cake day then… I’m struggling to find a cake associated with Wednesday or with Woden, but a further link is the planet mercury – so… according to Vedic astrology mung beans are the thing for Wednesday… but no, not for cakes! However, on another site I find that Mercury in astrological medicine from the sixteenth century, is associated with carrots and nuts!! What does this mean? it means carrot cake! My favourite!!

Here is a version with pineapple as well, and desiccated coconut. it is so moist and delicious!

Carrot, pineapple and coconut cake

9 oz plain flour
1½ tsp baking powder
7 oz brown sugar
5½ fl oz oil (following my recent success with Maryam’s cake I now use olive oil)
2 medium carrots finely grated, or processed (but not to a mush – the bits have to be carroty still)
8½ oz crushed pineapple, undrained
2 oz desiccated coconut
2 eggs
½ tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon (as I don’t like cinnamon I would use mixed spice or allspice)
cream cheese frosting (3 oz cream cheese, 2 oz butter, 11 oz icing sugar – I like a lemon flavour but you can add vanilla if you prefer)
nuts of your choice to decorate I like walnuts, pecan or pistachio but have what you like

prepare a 9×9 cake tin (greased and lined)
mix dry ingredients
add all the other ingredients and mix well, really well
bake at 350° F, 180° C, gas mark 4 for about 35 mins (this is what the recipe says, in my oven it takes another 15-20 mins) check and take out if done, or leave in for a few more minutes
when cool, decorate with the frosting and nuts

My featured image is obviously not carrot cake, although if I changed the colours of the edible flowers to shades of orange, it could be! This was a cake I made for a special event, but I cannot remember which – probably a birthday!