{"id":39710,"date":"2013-11-14T10:46:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T17:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/14\/mmmmm-carrot-cake.html"},"modified":"2013-11-14T10:46:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T17:46:26","slug":"mmmmm-carrot-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/14\/mmmmm-carrot-cake.html","title":{"rendered":"Mmmmm … Carrot Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"
I don't make nearly enough of my own devastatingly wonderful carrot cake. Which is probably why I don't weigh 300 lbs.<\/p>\n

They're spot on about the raisins, btw. That's the easy way for me to spot which carrot cakes at restaurants to skip.<\/p><\/div>\n

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You\u2019re Doing It Wrong: Carrot Cake<\/a>
\n Wise journalists, students, and trivia contestants know not to trust Wikipedia unthinkingly. There is no better support for rule of thumb than the open-source encyclopedia\u2019s entry for carrot cake, which currently begins: Carrot cake is a cake or pie which contains carrots mixed into the batter. The carrot softens in…\n <\/p>\n

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I don't make nearly enough of my own devastatingly wonderful carrot cake. Which is probably why I don't weigh 300 lbs. They're spot on about the raisins, btw. That's the easy way for me to spot which carrot cakes at restaurants to skip. 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