{"id":59,"date":"2013-04-01T09:35:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T07:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.applesgolden.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2013-08-31T18:08:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T16:08:49","slug":"mmm-mmm-carrot-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.applesgolden.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Mmm Mmm Carrot Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All South Africans LOVE carrot cake! Here is our favorite one so far:<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<br \/>\n4 Eggs<br \/>\n1 cup pur\u00e9ed butternut squash<br \/>\n1\/4 cup canola oil<br \/>\n3\/4 cup white sugar<br \/>\n2 tsp. vanilla extract <\/p>\n<p>Mix the above together. Then add:<\/p>\n<p>2 cups flour (cake flour works great, but all-purpose is fine)<br \/>\n2 tsp. baking powder<br \/>\n2 tsp. baking soda<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp. salt<br \/>\n2 tsp. ground cinnamon<\/p>\n<p>Stir until combined. Fold in:<\/p>\n<p>3 cups grated carrots<\/p>\n<p>Pour into two greased and floured loaf pans. Bake in preheated oven at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.<\/p>\n<p>Optional icing:<br \/>\n3 cups powdered sugar<br \/>\n4 oz. cream cheese, softened<br \/>\n2 T. real butter, softened<\/p>\n<p>Cream icing ingredients together and spread on top of your cooled cake. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy with a cup of coffee and say a prayer for Port Elizabeth, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Pray for:<br \/>\n*Coega (pronounced: cooga) Door of Hope Children&#8217;s Home (DOH). DOH currently has 42 of the most beautiful children that have been abandoned for one reason or another. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.applesgolden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130401-093418.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.applesgolden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130401-093418.jpg\" alt=\"20130401-093418.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All South Africans LOVE carrot cake! Here is our favorite one so far: Ingredients: 4 Eggs 1 cup pur\u00e9ed butternut squash 1\/4 cup canola oil 3\/4 cup white sugar 2 tsp. vanilla extract Mix the above together. Then add: 2 cups flour (cake flour works great, but all-purpose is fine) 2 tsp. baking powder 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.applesgolden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.applesgolden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.applesgolden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.applesgolden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.applesgolden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.applesgolden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"http:\/\/www.applesgolden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.applesgolden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.applesgolden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.applesgolden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}