This Gluten-Free Carrot Spice Cake Rocks My World!

I’ve found my happy gluten-free carrot spice cake… Mom’s Place Gluten-Free created the perfect mix of deliciousness in an easy-to-follow mix+recipe.  Use some imagination when decorating and voila, you too, will impress your family and friends with this moist, decadent dessert.

Mom’s Place Gluten-Free introduced itself to me at the 2018 GF&AF Food Expo in San Diego, CA in February.  Their display showcased a huge assortment of flours, soup mixes, seasonings, bread mixes, breakfast mixes, pastas, meal mixes, and dessert mixes.

I’d not heard of Mom’s Place Gluten-Free before, and after enjoying sampling a variety of their items, the excitement of delicious gluten-free cooking & baking options filled my head.  I bought lots of goodies to create at home, including their Carrot Cake w/ White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting.

Prep was simple ~ grab a few items to add to Mom’s Place Gluten Free’s mix, and start your tasty creation.

Instead of a usual round, layered cake, I opted for creating & decorating individual triangular pieces.  It was for Easter Sunday, and I wanted to enjoy a fun, new experience with cake decorating.  ‘Carrots’, anyone?

Mom and I baked the cake in a 9×13″ rectangular pan, following a post I found at Kelly Senyei’s Just a Taste blog.  After the cake cooled, we didn’t use twine to indicate where to cut the triangles (as she suggested), instead we eyed it, laughed a lot, and cut according to our best guesstimate of a what a ‘carrot’ serving size looks like.

We used Mom’s Place Gluten-Free frosting mix, sans the white chocolate.  I’m not a fan of white chocolate, and decided to forego it.  So happy with this decision!  We frosted the individually cut pieces, and started decorating.

The green icing leaves are done a bit in advance, either the night before, or just before making your cake, so they can harden a bit.  The recipe called for green candy melts for the leaves, and orange candy melts for the carrot lines on the frosted slices.  I only found white and orange candy melts, so I imagined a few added drops of green food coloring would suffice.  Not so fast :o).

We melted the white candy melts per the package directions, and added a few drops of green food coloring, even though it stated something to the effect of ‘do not add any liquid to the melted chocolate or you’ll get a different consistency’.  They weren’t fibbing.  Using a cake piping bag, I squeezed the heck out of the melted (now green) frosting, using lots of muscles to dribble out the leaves you see above.  They look nothing like Kelly’s, and I’m OK with that!  I just know in the future, I’m prepping my grocery list much sooner, going for the green.

We picked out the nicest looking green leaves, poked two holes in the ends of our ‘carrots’ with a toothpick, and stuck the leaves in at the top.  A handful of the leaf stems broke, again, something that likely wouldn’t happen as often if I was able to thicken the piping more easily!

When it came time to decorate the orange lines, it was a breeze!  We melted the orange candy melts per the package directions, scooped it into a piping bag, and voila!  The orange came out so smooth and pretty!  What a difference from the crazy experience we had with the green.  One of our guests suggested drizzling the orange down the sides – excellent!

We displayed our ‘carrots’ on a tray, sprinkled some jelly beans among them, and were very pleased with our desserts.

Even more pleasing was the absolute fantastic taste!  It’s a lovely carrot taste, mixed with lots of spices adding an abundance of flavor.  And so moist!  I’m the only one eating gluten-free at this Easter Sunday dinner.  That said, our ‘carrots’ were g – o – n – e in no time.  Faster than kids in a backyard Easter egg hunt ;o).

I’m so thankful to find Mom’s Place Gluten-Free, and I’m excited to try other products I purchased from them.  They’re certified gluten free, made with non-GMO ingredients, and contain no preservatives.  All that, and excellent tasting!  Opa, Mom’s Place!

     – wendi e.  ;o)