The beauty of a muffin is that it's like cake, but you don't have to share it, because it's like a muffin. This carrot cake recipe is a result of long hours of carrot grating and a pile of thrown away flattened attempts. It is now truly perfect! Enjoy!

Move over carrot cake! The parsnip has arrived and wants some of the action. Good, fresh, firm parsnips have a wonderful, natural sweetness that makes them ideal in baked desserts. Read on for this inspired recipe that will have you singing the praises of parsnips.

Another delicious Sunday Dinner. Ham, potatoes, baby spinach and carrot cake! Recipes included!

Another delicious Sunday Dinner. Ham, potatoes, baby spinach and carrot cake! Recipes included!

Kevin Eats the Figgy pudding.. it's actually kinda like carrot cake with some extra captain morgan's rum.. YUM!!

Cake is a form of food that is usually sweet and often baked. Cakes normally combine some kind of flour, a sweetening agent (commonly sugar), a binding agent (generally egg, though gluten or starch are often used by vegetarians and vegans), fats (usually butter, shortening, or margarine, although a fruit purée such as applesauce is sometimes substituted to avoid using fat), a liquid (milk, water or fruit juice), flavors and some form of leavening agent (such as yeast or baking powder), though many cakes lack these ingredients and instead rely on air bubbles in the dough to expand and cause the cake to rise. Cake is often frosted with buttercream or marzipan, and finished with piped borders and crystallized fruit.Cake is often the dessert of choice for meals at ceremonial occasions, particularly weddings, anniversaries and birthdays. There are literally millions of cake recipes (some are bread-like and some rich and elaborate) and many are centuries old. Cake making is no longer a complicated procedure; while at one time considerable labor went into cake making (particularly the whisking of egg foams), baking equipment and directions have been so perfected and simplified that even the amateur cook may easily become an expert baker.