Chowdown Showdown
Have Your Cake and Improve Your Eyesight, Too: Who Has the Best Carrot Cake?
This week, our taster took one for the team and tried carrot cake at three Lincoln-Way places.
See next week's food challenge at the bottom of this column, comment below and you could receive a $50 gift card to a local restaurant in a random drawing. For more rules and details, see the Chowdown Showdown Giveaway guidelines. Carrots are one of the sweetest vegetables on earth. It only makes sense, then, that they be used to sweeten baked goods. Not only do carrots add natural sweetness, but they offer texture and color, too. I adore carrot cake; I like mine with walnuts, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, raisins and, of course, cream cheese icing, although some recipes might include pineapple, ginger or even coconut. Carrot cake comes in many forms: sheet cake, layer cake, cupcake, and, as I found at Pickwick, even as mini cupcakes. …
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Michael Sewall
4:32 pm on Sunday, May 29, 2011
Kathy, you won a random drawing today to become a finalist for our monthly gift card giveaway! Toward the end of June, we'll conduct another random drawing among four finalists and the winner will get a $50 gift card to a featured local restaurant. Thank you for reading Patch! more ›