Diablo - May 8

[SadieKate]

OK with carrot cake?

Jason may follow you home and move in.

[Veronica]

Swapped out the Word doc for a JPG. Maybe that'll work.

Our e mail at work is being wonky. I sent some stuff to other teachers from my house last night and it still hasn't arrived.

I'll blame it on Outlook. Or maybe it's because we have like 5 tech people to cover the entire district of 21 schools.

V.

[aka_kim]

I love carrot cake, with rich creamy frosting.

Better start doing the rain dance, Yellow, it's all up to you.

[slinkedog]

Okay, I know I keep hijacking this thread, but I have to pipe in about carrot cake. The world's best carrot cake can be had at a local bakery (for all you South Bay women) called Icing on the Cake in Los Gatos. Blaine and I had it for our wedding cake and I have it every year for my birthday and we have it for our anniversary. We actually ate some on our first date. It's heavenly. If we ever all get together, I promise to bring some.

[cindysue]

I'm in and I love carrot cake. My BF - another "Andrew" loves all dessert and will be quite tickled to be so rewarded. It will be his first time up Diablo. In fact he has not been on a road bike in many many years with the exception of two weeks ago - we rode to Danville and back to get his feet wet again. You may recall we are riding to Santa Barbara this spring (June 13...). So this will be a good test ride, as there will be plenty of hills between here and SB.

[slinkedog]

Cindy... please post it in the recipes thread when you get a moment! I'm always looking for a good carrot cake recipe and have yet to find one I'm very happy with! I'm sure yours will be truly fabulous!

Your trip to SB sounds like SO MUCH fun! Are you guys going to camp or stay in motels or what? Where are you going to start from? Are you driving back or riding back?

[SadieKate]

It shouldn't amaze me any longer at how fast we can go from dicussing biking to eating.

[slinkedog]

Well, you don't eat, you don't bike. It's that simple!! Right?

I bike to eat, so that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

[cindysue]

Carrot Cake - from "the Silver Palate"

3 cups flour
3 cups granulated sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tbl baking soda
1 tbl ground cinnamon
1 1/2 cups corn oil
4 large eggs - lightly beaten
1 tbl vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts
1 1/2 cups shredded coconut
1 1/3 cups prueed cooked carrots
3/4 cup drained crushed pineapple

1) Preheat oven to 350*. Grease two 9-inch layer cake pans lined with wax paper.
2) sift dry ingredients into a bowl. Add oil, eggs and vanilla. Beat well. Fold in walnuts, coconut, carrots, pineapple.
3) pour batter into prepared pans. Set on middle rack of the oven. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until edges have pulled away from sides and a cake tester inserted comes out clean.
4) Cool on a cake rack for 3 hours. Fill cake and frost sides with cream-cheese frosting. Dust w/ powdered sugar.

Frosting

8 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
6 tbl sweet butter, room temperature
3 cups confectioners' sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
juice of 1/2 lemon (optional)

1) cream together cream cheese and butter in a mixing bowl
2) slowy sift in confectioners' sugar. Continue beating until fully incorporated. Mixture should be free of lumps.
Stir in vanilla and lemon juice

[slinkedog]

Copied and pasted into my recipe file! THANKS! Looks really good!

[cindysue]

Cindy... please post it in the recipes thread when you get a moment! I'm always looking for a good carrot cake recipe and have yet to find one I'm very happy with! I'm sure yours will be truly fabulous!

Your trip to SB sounds like SO MUCH fun! Are you guys going to camp or stay in motels or what? Where are you going to start from? Are you driving back or riding back?

ok, cutting and pasting recipe over there.

We will be camping and hoteling it. first night in a hotel. Next two nights camping. Next two nights in a hotel w/ the 5th night at a nice B&B. Cant' wait! We will BART over to SF (?? not sure exact starting point - but we have a map from Adventure Cycling). We plan to rent a car for the trip back. I bought a trailer, so this should be a lot of fun.

We are going to do a test ride and camp on Mt. Diablo soon. Maybe all of you can join us?????

[cindysue]

Okay, I know I keep hijacking this thread, but I have to pipe in about carrot cake. The world's best carrot cake can be had at a local bakery (for all you South Bay women) called Icing on the Cake in Los Gatos. Blaine and I had it for our wedding cake and I have it every year for my birthday and we have it for our anniversary. We actually ate some on our first date. It's heavenly. If we ever all get together, I promise to bring some.

i love mushy romantic stories like that!

[cindysue]

Kim (bring the Pilot!),

Pilot? Seriously? I ask because Andrew (my BF) flys aerobatics as a hobby. I'm sure he'd love someone to chat with over carrot cake

[aka_kim]

Pilot? Seriously?

Uh, no. It's just a nickname we've given him (which he doesn't know about). He's not supposed to ride hills, so won't be joining us.

[cindysue]

Uh, no. It's just a nickname we've given him (which he doesn't know about). He's not supposed to ride hills, so won't be joining us.

ahhh OK, thanks for clearing up. But now I'm curious..........