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Thanks Snowy

Suelle ..Will have a look tomorrow, many thanks.

Posset,
as Sue says in her last post, it's on the BBC Good Food website as 'Yummy scrummy carrot cake'.


snowy

Can you share it with us guys here please Suelle? I don't post over on the BBC but do read from time to time. I think I may have picked up a Cookie recipe of yours and made last week for my son's birthday.... delicious. Also, if you are the same person who reminded us of a flap-jack type tray cake with melted Mars Bars on the top (originally Sainsbury's Mag, some years ago), many thanks...I had lost it. I had six teenage lads to keep fed and watered over that weekend and that hit the spot! They didn't complain about feeling hungry for at least an hour

Yes I'm the same snowy! Came across some recipes from you the other day that I'd printed off with your full name on! That's a while ago!
Glad you've posted the Carrot cake recipe - it really is good.


snowy

"Was it your lovely 'Carrot cake' recipe I made this morning? "

Hi Snowy - may well have been, if you also use the BBC food boards. Now that it's online, it's officially the Good Food Yummy Scrummy Carrot Cake - virtually identical, as it was my original source!

Thank you for the information Sue. Very useful when baking as I didn't know much about demerara sugar.
Was it your lovely 'Carrot cake' recipe I made this morning?

snowy

Demerara is a sugar with large crystals - larger than granulated, so not really suitable for use in baking as a substitute for 'raw' sugar, as the crytals don't dissolve easily and can make things 'gritty' in texture. I would go for muscavado or molasses sugar as a more suitable substitute, or even ordinary 'soft' brown sugar.

Demerara sugar is as sweet as white sugars, as it is artificially coloured. The unrefined, or 'raw' sugars are the ones which give a bitter edge to the flavour when they are used.

I have arecipe which has "rawbrown sugar" in it.
Demerara is not mentioned in the recipe-can it be used as substitute?
is it very sweet?

Interestingly we can buy 'raw sugar' over here. Mind you, living in Queensland which is sugar cane country, I suppose that isn't surprising. You can drive for miles and miles and miles and on either side of the road there are sugar cane fields. The tourist guide we bought when we first came over here exploring called them 'stunning'. Huh! Very samey actually. Sorry, Snowy, not much help to you. I'd go with Rosti's solution but it will make the cake dark in colour

Thanks Rosti for your help.

Nice to be back on here. Have had a lot of computer trouble! Good to see Mary posting too.

I would go for Muscovada as the raw sugar.

Nice to see you posting again Snowy.