I love carrot cake-it always gives me a healthy feeling even after I've finished off half of the cake. Healthy for the eyes, but definitely not for my figure. Most of the carrot cake recipes that I've come across have either been too dry or too seasoned, and until recently I thought that there just wasn't a perfect carrot cake. Last month I got a shipment of cookbooks I ordered, and among them was the lovely cookbook "Breakfast, Lunch,Tea" of the Rose Bakery, a Parisian café( with an English baker). Their flagship cake is of course their carrot cake, and the book, which I highly recommend is filled with lots of other great recipes. After a long look at the photos and a shorter glance at the recipes, I decided to first try the carrot cake and I was surprised to find out that the cake calls for nine carrots! In relation to the carrot cakes I've made before, nine carrots seemed like a lot! I was not dissuaded and I decided to give the carrot cake a chance, and I was not sorry about it- thanks... 
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