Carrot cake

[taxlady]

I made carrot cake. It was good, but no better than what I have eaten elsewhere. The icing turned out tasty. I used home made quark instead of cream cheese. The texture was a little different. If you looked closely, you could see tiny curds, but it wasn't apparent while eating it. I'll see if I can fix that another time.

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[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooh!

Love me some carrot cake and would love to try it when we can get out there next.

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

It wasn't hard to make.

Can you eat cream cheese? What about cultured buttermilk?

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Both of them make me sick, but if I take my enzyme pills with them I'm either okay or not too bad. A lot of it also depends on how much I consume.

[miseri.livejournal.com]

Carrot cake with ... icing? And cream cheese? Not eggs and shrimp and spring onions? That's just weird.

Haha, okay, I know a carrot cake is around these parts. But I just love how this other thing I grew up with, called a "carrot cake", was so very very different from the western understanding of carrot cake. I forget if I've ever told you about it; heaven knows I like to bring it up whenever the conversation turns to carrot cake.

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

No, you never told me about it. What's it like?

[miseri.livejournal.com]

Savoury and delicious.

The "carrot" in question is actually some kind of white root vegetable; I'm not sure what it's called. The whole thing is made into a thick, glutinous dough that is steamed (to make it more solid) and then either cut into a palm-sized square and deep-fried, or else chopped into little bits and stir-fried with various other ingredients such as shrimp and spring onions. I'm not sure, but I think the palm-sized square version may be available under a different name, at some dim sum places. If it is, it should not be confused with a different savoury, square, glutinous cake thing that has yam in it.