By Request

I can recall reading the Little House On The Prairie books as a young girl, (this is Lara posting, NOT Wally) and feeling nothing but sorry for young Laura when (periodically throughout the series) she’d waxed on and on, dedicating paragraph after paragraph to some [tedious] annual dessert-making episode, which inevitably involved a blow-by-blow description of the anticipatory 30-mile trip to the general store to purchase special ingredients….all the way up to the culminating lip-smacking dining experience, the memory of which would need to sustain the Ingalls’ girls the following 365 days, on up until the next holiday season. I’d shake my head in disbelief as I shut the book hard, and rode off to the corner candy store on my Schwinn Cruiser…trying to pedal myself free of the imagined flavor of Horehound Candy, Vinegar Pie, or what have you (whatever Laura had).

Well, those days are alive again in the Jones household, as we make it a point to rarely eat sugar. I will say that I have developed a new found respect for fruit, and when I do eat a slice of the annual Wally birthday cake…it is powerfully sweet!!! Laura, eat your heart out:)

Several of you requested that I post the recipe for this year’s Vegan “Beefcake Cake” (which was actually a carrot cake). I don’t remember where we got it from, but it’s the one we have used every year since first we started dating. Now isn’t that sweet?

350 degrees/50-60 min/10×9 pan

DRY:
2 C Flour 1 t Cinnamon
1/2 C Sugar 1 t Salt
1/4 C Brown Sugar
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3 C Shredded Carrots 1/2 C Veg Oil
3/4 C Apple Sauce 2 t Vanilla
4 T Flax Seed and 12 T H2O blended together until “snotty” (egg sub)
1/2 C Chopped Nuts (optional)

Grease and flour pan. Stir together dry ingredients. Mix in carrots, then wet ingredients. Beat 2-3 min. until well mixed. Stir in nuts. Bake, cool, frost.

Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting:
1/4 C Faux Cream Cheese 1 t vanilla
1/4 C Earth Balance 1.5 C Powdered Sugar

Mix all ingredients together at room temperature.