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Carla Hall shares fun and tasty carrot recipes perfect for spring | Food/Recipes

April 9, 20211 min read Ferri Sulu

To celebrate spring, Carla Hall, renowned chef, author, and television host, offers two delicious recipes that make carrots the star ingredient of the season.

“The thing I love most about the humble carrot is its versatility. It can be a snack, a salad, a dessert, a side dish or the basis for most soups and sauces,” says Hall.

McCormick spices agrees, reporting that recipe searches for roasting carrots is trending over the past year in internet searches and on their website, making it the perfect choice for vibrant spring dishes.

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4 delicious recipes to celebrate International Carrot Day

April 6, 20211 min read Ferri Sulu

Long, orange and crunchy, carrots are the icon of healthy foods and they truly deserved to have a day of their own. April 4 marks International Carrot Day and what better way to celebrate this nutritious vegetable with a variety of delicious recipes and tidbits.

One interesting fact is that Turkey actually had a place nicknamed the “Town of Carrots” – namely Beypazarı in Turkey’s capital Ankara. The town even has a carrot statue in the district square but the reason it got the name is mainly that 70% of Turkey’s carrots are grown there.

With some simple icing and

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Order Last Minute Easter Brunch, Dinner, Carrot Cake, and Pie

April 3, 20211 min read Ferri Sulu

This Sunday is Easter, the Christian holiday usually filled with packed pews and kids rolling around after colorful eggs and anthropomorphic bunnies. This year many will, once again, celebrate mostly at home with smaller gatherings. That doesn’t have to mean a day tied to the kitchen cooking up a feast. Several restaurants are still offering all kinds of feasts, from Midwestern dinners, best served just a hair past noon, epic brunches, or just sweet baked goods stuffed with a taste of spring.

Comforting Classics: The Buttered Tin

The Buttered Tin, will offer Easter treats like a pan of nine

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Best Homemade Carrot Cake Recipe w/ Cream Cheese Frosting (Video)

April 2, 20211 min read Ferri Sulu

There’s nothing that says Easter dessert quite like Homemade Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. Moist cake laced with finely shredded carrots, topped with velvety smooth cream cheese, whipped into frosted perfection… Those are the markings of the best carrot cake recipe and we happen to have one right here for you, courtesy of Chef Jon Ashton.

Related: 101 Best Easter Recipes

When it comes to old-fashioned carrot cake, you’ll want to make it from scratch. Store-bought carrot cake just doesn’t compare to freshly-made, freshly-frosted cake—trust us. This isn’t your basic carrot cake either. Thanks to secret ingredients

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Carrot cake recipe with brown butter-cream cheese frosting will keep you coming back for more

April 2, 20211 min read Ferri Sulu

Instead, we repurposed the cake at the post-wedding brunch the following day and presented it as a birthday cake for Andrew’s grandfather. It wound up being a win-win.

It wasn’t until this assignment that I really went down the delicious carrot cake rabbit hole. Sure, I had made it from time to time, but it was always in a hurry to deliver a cake for a special occasion: a birthday, a Father’s Day celebration or random joyful moments we wanted to commemorate. I didn’t have a go-to recipe, and while the cakes I was making were fine, they weren’t extraordinary

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15 Sweet and Savory Vegan Carrot Recipes

April 1, 20211 min read Ferri Sulu

Carrots are a great vegetable to be incorporating into your diet! They offer numerous health benefits and also work well in so many sweet and savory dishes. You can put them in soups, rice dishes, cake, and even make bacon out of them! If that isn’t a great example of versatility, we don’t know what it is. If you’re looking for a few recipes to incorporate this yummy root vegetable into, look no further. These 15 vegan carrot recipes are so tasty!

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