Carrot Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Glaze [sms]

This week's Sweet Melissa Sundays pick, Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting, was chosen by Julie of A Little Bit of Everything. I knew that I needed something amazing for a murder mystery dinner that I was going to, so I decided to make this cake into a bundt cake. It would be pretty easy to get everyone a piece at the reception along with the Lemon Meringue Cupcakes that I made.

This week was definitely really stressful. First, I had two midterms, one on Tuesday, the next on Wednesday. Then, I had somehow crashed my computer and I stayed up until about 5am to get Windows 7 from a friend. In addition, the next day I went over and stayed until about 2 - which isnt bad - to get Microsoft Office and all that. It's just been a hassle with my computer lately.

Everyone had told me that it was a wonderful and very nice carrot cake. I was unable to taste it since I had 2 ice cream sandwiches already by the time I had gotten to the cake. Everyone seemed to have really enjoyed it!

I made the original recipe for the cake, with this cream cheese glaze.

Recipe:

3oz of cream cheese, room temperature

3 T of milk

3 T of powdered sugar

Just mix all the ingredients together, until smooth. Add milk or powdered sugar to get to the consistency you want.

The Murder Mystery Dinner: at the Wedding Reception has been worked on by the Kiwanis Family committee of UC Berkeley Circle K for the past couple of weeks. We put together a plotline and characters. It was super fun to act and be someone different for a night. I was the angry drunk ex-girlfriend to the groom. We had gone out during our time at business school at Columbia. He was the only guy to ever dump me so I'm very bitter towards him. It was just fun to get dressed up and play something that I'm definitely not. I love my boyfriend, but it's fun to pretend! It was hilarious though, somehow throughout the night, everyone thought that I was pregnant which definitely was not a part of the plotline. I had a fun time Friday night, even though it is not the typical college Friday night.

Make sure to check out the rest of the SMS bakers on the blogroll.

Late Nights and Carrot Cake

Baking for Darrell was fun but also tiring. Grating all those carrots was fun, but then again, ACK, I think I'll put it through the food processor next time.

I thought peeled mini carrots would be easier, but it was totally not. Oh well =)
Ingredients, including the grated carrots.
I realized, I always get twin eggs when I'm baking.
I dont think that looks especially appetizing, but that's the batter...
After being baked and tops cut off...
You may be wondering why the tops are cut off, and that's cuz I wanted to make it easier on myself, and make them look all pretty and its easier with cut off tops. maybe next time i'll estimate better on the AMOUNT that the batter rises...

The next are the couple that I like show off my bettering piping skills =)
Yay arent they so pretty?

Then I sent them over to Darrell, and talked for a while, then another hour in front of my place with Matt. I could not fall asleep for the longest time but whatever, its the weekend soon so I'll sleep then.
Yay prettiness, but no more blogging until I get back. I'm so excited =)

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