Carrot cake

I tried a carrot cake recipe last year, but the results were slightly disappointing. Ive kept a couple more carrot cake recipes up my sleeve, and this is one of them, from Tessa Kiros' book Falling Cloudberries. Overall, it's a delicious recipe, especially with the frosting, which is heavenly and absolutely indispensible. The only problem is that it is super, super rich. It's taken two people a week to finish it. The last piece is about to go down tonight.

 

Peanut butter cupcakes

I've been homebound sick for the last three days, dreaming of cupcakes. Today I was well enough to venture out to get some ingredients to make these peanut butter cupcakes with cream cheese -based frosting. I was first planning on making chocolate ones but for some reason this held a greater appeal this afternoon. They turned out quite good. Want some? I can't finish these on my own...