Carrot cake is popular in New Zealand. It probably comes in third after those other perennial favorites, chocolate cake and banana cake. I used to make carrot cake quite often, using wholemeal flour and always adding cinnamon and raisins. The traditional topping is cream cheese icing but I think prefer lemon or orange butter icing. Good carrot cake should be moist and soft. Once I tried out my carrot cake recipe with daikon. The result was ... interesting. Not horrible. I prefer carrot cake.
I haven't seen many carrot cakes in Japan, but maybe I just go to the wrong cafes. The carrot cake in the photo was a gift from my friend. I have really nice friends! It was every bit as good as it looks.
You are right! Somehow, we don't have many carrot cakes in Japan... (maybe at dean and deluca or starbucks?!) But I believe once the media picks up, it will be popular like Krispy Kreme! haha
ReplyDeletecitrus icing sounds yummy!!!
Daikon smells, so I don't think it works like carrot X( But I understand you because I once substituted it for my recipe and resulted interesting :P