Showing posts with label Daphne Oz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daphne Oz. Show all posts

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Daphne Oz's Outlaw Carrot Cake (Good Housekeeping October 2016)

While flicking through this month's Good Housekeeping magazine I was instantly inspired by this recipe for Best Outlaw Carrot Cake with Brown Sugar Buttercream by Daphne Oz. It conjured up memories of my friend's mum's version, plus I had a few leftover carrots which I would happily sacrifice!

If you don't know already, Daphne is Dr. Oz's daughter and is on the lineup for TV's The Chew. I have watched the show before but her recipes never really stuck out to me. Apparently this is from her book The Happy Chef which I have no real desire to get but worth looking at if this recipe is any good. Now, I'm not usually a fan of celebrity/TV chef meals as I feel like they're not that original and never end up being that tasty either but you can't go wrong with carrot cake right? 












Yay or Nay: Nay

I deliberately did not make the frosting as I am not a fan of it. There were a few ingredients missing such as the molasses and I subbed whole wheat flour for all plain flour, and dark brown sugar for light brown sugar which could have affected the final result. It didn't have a whole lot of carroty/cinnamon flavour, the cake was moist when it came out but dried up pretty quick. This recipe required quite a lot of ingredients and steps to it, I'm sure there are simpler recipes that are much tastier in my opinion!