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Hey guys Pilgrim Dan from Danny Macs kitchen Happy Holidays!! Especially Happy Thanksgiving!
I'm looking forward to it, I'm lookin forward to getting together with family and friends
Lovinf this hat! What do you think? I'm totally going to be wearing this out
rockin the Pilgrim style! I don't care what people think of me
I'm gonna be wearing it in the supermarket shopping for produce I don't care
I got something really cool for you I'm not a big dessert guy at the end of the
day After eating and drinking way too much
but its got to be exceptional I have something exceptional for you to make
worthy of eating all that food and drinking and then having something
after that Homeade carrot cake, my recipe Homeade cream cheese icing
Your absolutely going to love it And I can't wait to show you how to make
it lets get started. What your going to need for this amazing
dessert two to three cups shredded carrots, one Tbsp. pure vanilla extract, four
oz. of chopped canned pineapple,
Three eggs, 10 Oz. vegetable oil, a cup and a half of sugar,
One cup of coconut, 2 Tbsp. of Baking soda, were gonna use a pinch of
salt, two Tbsp. of cinnamon, 2 cups of all purpose flour, and I have a little
bit of flour set on the side. Which were gonna need to dust our pans
I'm gonna show you how to do that right now I have 2 9" baking pans here
get any kind of a non stick spray spray your pans make sure you get
around the sides on both of them This is just going to allow for the cakes
to slide out of here really simply This reserved flour that I mentioned
Just sprinkle a little bit in both And gently just tap the flour
around the pan just like that
same on the other side Your cake is going to come out
of this pan so easy! Go ahead and set these aside
Combine the sugar, the pineapple, The vanilla, the vegetable oil, 1o oz.
And three eggs Were gonna use your hand mixer,
Oops gotta get that shell out of there Low to medium speed
Just combine this Takes about 35 seconds
Were gonna mix together our dry ingredients 2 cups all purpose flour,
1 Cup shredded coconut, 2 tbsp. Cinnamon, 2 Tbsp. Baking soda, just a pinch of salt
That's all you need Whisk it together
On low speed, we are going to add our dry ingredients to our wet ingredients
Don't add them all at the same time and we are going to do it incrementally
Scrape down the sides of the bowl and start putting in the carrots
So I am using all three cups of the shredded carrots
Just incorporate it Divide the batter evenly between
your two pans
Level them out Were going to bake these two three hunred
fifty degrees for thirty five minutes While we are baking away this icing
couldn't be any simpler What you need id two and a half cups
of confecctionary sugar, 8 Oz. of unsalted butter, very important
make sure it's unsalted and sixteen Oz. of cream cheese
These have to be at room temperature Very Very Very important!
One Tbsp. vanilla extract First what we want to do take the butter
And the cream cheese and with our hand mixer, were just going to combine them
at low speed
Scrape down the sides of the bowl add your vanilla
Give it another mixing low speed
Little by little add the confectionary sugar
Do it in thirds low speed
It's been thirty five minutes Lets check them out
Oh yeah they look great !! Wow And the smell mm mm mm
Just to make sure though Put this in the middle see if
it comes out clean which it does So we know that we are perfectly cooked
We are going to let these guys rest for a solid twenty five minutes
and let them cool down then we are going to transfer them to a wire rack
And were going to ice them So our cakes have totally cooled
They have to be one hundred percent cool or our icing is going to melt
all over it Lets get them iced
I'm using a little cake board here You can use use any kind of card board
or anything you have at home I'm going to apply the first layer
A generous amount in the middle And move it around
Really you just want to cover the surface So were covered I'm going to go
ahead and put the second layer on top And then we'll repeat
I have to tell you guys though that icing a cake is an art,it does take practice
And I definitely don't profess to be an expert cake icer
So I'll do my best!! Really get it covered on top
I'm going to use am ofset spatula to really smooth it out a little bit
Try and get it as uniform as you can Like I said, it is not the easiest thing
I'm going to start applying to the sides Lets try and clean it up a bit
Make it look like it came from a bakery You can use a little hot water too
It helps smooth it out I told ya, I'ts not the easiest thing
It takes practice But we do our best Lets try snd clean up the sides
a little bit just go around at a slight angle
Not looking too bad Lets fold over the sides a little bit
Just smooth it over a bit like that Like I said use a little hot water
it helps So now I want to make a cool design on top
I'm gonna use a pastry bag I have a fine tip here I think it's a
number two tip this is the same icing that is on the cake here
I've just colored it with a little orange food coloring and I'm just gonna go
and put a little of this in my pastry bag So I'm just gonna make a cool design
Be creative, do whatever you want The presentstion is really nice
Now that is a handsome carrot cake!! So guys I really hoped you enjoyed our
second Thanksgiving episode It was a lot of fun it was a lot of fun
dressing up with these crazy hats and the crazy thing I was wearing from the othrt
episode you gotto get in the mood for the holidays! Thats what it is all about
You make a rockin dessert like this I will definitely save room at dinner to have
something like this! Hope you enjoyed it Next time.. Danny from Danny Macs good seeing
ya!! crazy hats