The Carrot Cake That Will Haunt You
Kitchen in the Shire
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Meet the Siren’s Song Carrot Cake, an irresistibly moist, decadent carrot cake made completely from scratch with warm spices, toasted walnuts, brown butter cream cheese frosting, and a candied carrot garnish.
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This is not a box mix carrot cake. Renee rebuilt the classic using three techniques that completely change the finished cake: a warm bloomed spice oil for a lingering finish, toasted walnuts for deeper flavor, and an intensely nutty brown butter cream cheese frosting.
In this video, Renee will show you how to make her Siren’s Song Carrot Cake step by step, including how to bloom the spices in warm oil, why the carrots are grated two different ways, how to prepare the cake pans with a coating of sugar, how to brown butter for cream cheese frosting, and how to make the candied carrot garnish that finishes the cake.
Blooming the spices in oil gives this carrot cake a much deeper, rounder flavor than simply adding dry spices to the batter. The spices become more aromatic and cohesive, with a flavor that lingers long after the bite is gone.
The carrots are also grated two different ways. Most are grated medium fine to give the cake structure and a tender bite, while the remaining carrots are grated more finely so they disappear into the crumb and help create the dense, moist texture Renee wanted without making the cake gummy or overly wet.
Even the pans get a little extra attention. Instead of stopping after greasing them, Renee gives the pans a light coating of white sugar to encourage a beautifully caramelized exterior on each layer.
Then there’s the frosting.
Butter is browned until deeply nutty before being turned into a brown butter cream cheese frosting, giving the finished cake another layer of flavor that ordinary cream cheese frosting simply doesn’t have.
Toasted walnuts and a candied carrot garnish finish the cake.
The result is a carrot cake that tastes familiar at first... and then becomes surprisingly difficult to pin down. Warm spices, toasted nuts, brown butter, carrots, caramelized edges, and cream cheese all seem to arrive at slightly different times, and they linger...
Which is exactly why we named it the Siren’s Song.
This cake will haunt you.
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Real Life Human Narrator: Damon Webb
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:03 - How to Prep the Ingredients
02:33 - How to Prep the Pans
03:17 - How to Bloom the Spices in Oil
05:46 - How to Combine the Dry Ingredients
06:42 - How to Build the Batter
10:07 - How to Mix the Ingredients
12:28 - Filling the Pans and Baking
13:32 - How to Make Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
17:08 - How to Tell When the Cakes are Done
18:26 - Building the Cake
21:15 - Candied Carrot Garnish
22:53 - First Slice, Close ups, taste test reaction
25:09 - Link to Free Recipe Card and QR code
25:26 - Renee discusses injury
#CarrotCake #CarrotCakeRecipe #BakingFromScratch #CreamCheeseFrosting #oldfashionedrecipes
Kitchen in the Shire, specializing in the preservation of 20th century American and international recipes, providing accessible step-by-step tutorials for novice and experienced bakers alike.
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Edit: yes, powdered milk is an option. Make sure it's powdered, not granules so it doesn't make your frosting grainy (if granulated is all you have, powder it in a blender or food processor or nut or coffee mill). Full fat powdered milk is better than non-fat for richer flavor. Don't add so much that the frosting starts tasting like powdered milk. Go easy and test the texture and taste.
So relaxing 😊
However your recipes are off the charts!
Thank you so much Renee. We love you. God bless! ❤
I've made like 5 or 6 of your desserts, everyone of them was amazing! I have to limit myself to like 1 recipe a month or im gonna balloon up like the Goodyear blimp...
Thank you for sharing. Absolutely scrumptious desserts!!!
The Carrot Cake That Will Haunt You
Kitchen in the Shire
134,029 views
Meet the Siren’s Song Carrot Cake, an irresistibly moist, decadent carrot cake made completely from scratch with warm spices, toasted walnuts, brown butter cream cheese frosting, and a candied carrot garnish.
FREE Recipe Card Download:
👉 https://www.kitchenintheshire.com/pub...
This is not a box mix carrot cake. Renee rebuilt the classic using three techniques that completely change the finished cake: a warm bloomed spice oil for a lingering finish, toasted walnuts for deeper flavor, and an intensely nutty brown butter cream cheese frosting.
In this video, Renee will show you how to make her Siren’s Song Carrot Cake step by step, including how to bloom the spices in warm oil, why the carrots are grated two different ways, how to prepare the cake pans with a coating of sugar, how to brown butter for cream cheese frosting, and how to make the candied carrot garnish that finishes the cake.
Blooming the spices in oil gives this carrot cake a much deeper, rounder flavor than simply adding dry spices to the batter. The spices become more aromatic and cohesive, with a flavor that lingers long after the bite is gone.
The carrots are also grated two different ways. Most are grated medium fine to give the cake structure and a tender bite, while the remaining carrots are grated more finely so they disappear into the crumb and help create the dense, moist texture Renee wanted without making the cake gummy or overly wet.
Even the pans get a little extra attention. Instead of stopping after greasing them, Renee gives the pans a light coating of white sugar to encourage a beautifully caramelized exterior on each layer.
Then there’s the frosting.
Butter is browned until deeply nutty before being turned into a brown butter cream cheese frosting, giving the finished cake another layer of flavor that ordinary cream cheese frosting simply doesn’t have.
Toasted walnuts and a candied carrot garnish finish the cake.
The result is a carrot cake that tastes familiar at first... and then becomes surprisingly difficult to pin down. Warm spices, toasted nuts, brown butter, carrots, caramelized edges, and cream cheese all seem to arrive at slightly different times, and they linger...
Which is exactly why we named it the Siren’s Song.
This cake will haunt you.
Want to learn how to make Browned Butter?
👉 That Nutty Flavor You Want: Brown Butter M...
Would you like to get perks and support the channel by becoming a CHANNEL MEMBER?
👉 channel
Would you like to VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE RECIPES, MERCH and MORE?
👉 https://www.kitchenintheshire.com
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Purchase the Cake Pans:
👉https://amzn.to/4gvfAkM
Purchase the Olive & Vine Ground Mace Spice
👉https://amzn.to/4hbJSIz
Would you like to explore my entire Kitchen Collection on Amazon?
👉 https://amzn.to/3ZFdl4B
Real Life Human Narrator: Damon Webb
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:03 - How to Prep the Ingredients
02:33 - How to Prep the Pans
03:17 - How to Bloom the Spices in Oil
05:46 - How to Combine the Dry Ingredients
06:42 - How to Build the Batter
10:07 - How to Mix the Ingredients
12:28 - Filling the Pans and Baking
13:32 - How to Make Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
17:08 - How to Tell When the Cakes are Done
18:26 - Building the Cake
21:15 - Candied Carrot Garnish
22:53 - First Slice, Close ups, taste test reaction
25:09 - Link to Free Recipe Card and QR code
25:26 - Renee discusses injury
#CarrotCake #CarrotCakeRecipe #BakingFromScratch #CreamCheeseFrosting #oldfashionedrecipes
Kitchen in the Shire, specializing in the preservation of 20th century American and international recipes, providing accessible step-by-step tutorials for novice and experienced bakers alike.