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Friday Faves #98! Carrot Cake Roll and a Mini Cookbook!

4/11/2019

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    The verdict is in!  This year, in order to accommodate everyone's schedules, we are doing Easter Brunch at our house!  I am actually pretty excited about it! All of the kids who live in town, and those "adopted" into our family kids and various other friends and family are going to attend church with us at 8:30 AM. My husband and I will be singing in the choir.  I am going to love looking down from the choir loft and seeing so many loved ones there with us listening to the Easter message.  We get done with our Sunday meetings at 10:30.  Since we live across the street from our chapel, it will be easy to come home and pull out all of the food that I will have prepared the day before and enjoy a lovely brunch together! 
      And what will the menu be, you ask?  Well, that is still in the planning stages.  But one of our favorite dessert/brunchy foods is a nice cake roll! We usually make and give away pumpkin rolls at Christmas time.  (I can't believe we haven't shared our recipe for those yet)!  For Easter, I thought a nice Carrot Cake Roll sounded like just the thing for Spring! I've made one to try it out!  It is definitely going on my Easter Brunch menu! 
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Now that it is just my husband and I at home, I have started buying just a few carrots at a time so that they won't get rubbery before I use them. I had these in my fridge and needed to do something with them. But, actually, the recipe only needed 1 carrot!
     As I began to create this recipe, I started thinking about other cake roll recipes I've made or eaten.  The nice things about cake rolls is that you get a lot of bang for your buck! They are pretty simple to make, they don't have to bake very long and they look beautiful when they are all finished and decorated and sliced!  Best of all, they taste deliciously decadent! All of these thoughts helped me to decide that cake rolls would be the Friday Faves subject for this week! Not only that, I came up with a nice little surprise for our subscribers!  You may or may not know that our subscribers all get a secret link to a secret page on our blog where they can download printables just for them! Today, I am giving a nice little Spring/Easter Gift of a Mini Cookbook with 3 Cake Roll Recipes, along with some tips and variations for making them to our subscribers!  All you have to do to download your own copy is to subscribe to our blog!  Don't worry, I only send 1 email a week.  I welcome new subscribers and give them the link to the secret page and tell you about what we are up to.  It's painless! All you have to do is put your email in the box at the top of this page, or on the pop-up that appears.  
     Now, on to the Carrot Cake Roll! 
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Super cute with the piped on carrots, right?
     This cake roll has the traditional carrot cake flavors of cinnamon and carrot with some sweetness of pineapple.  The filling is a cream cheese filling with pineapple added as well.  You don't have to add the pineapple, you can make it a plain cream cheese filling.  But, my husband loved the pineapple in the filling.  The frosting is our regular popular recipe.  Those carrots aren't fondant, I just piped them on with the frosting. I am so excited to serve this at our Easter Brunch!  And you can make it and serve it as well!  Just follow us here on the blog and we will send you the link to the  Mini Cookbook with this Carrot Cake Roll recipe plus 2 others that are faves, with ideas for delicious cake roll variations. 
      I printed off my own copy of the Mini Cookbook and put it right into my Bloggelicious Baking Binder under the cake section.  You can order your own Bloggelicious Baking Printables here.  It is a great way to organize all of the recipes that you print from online sites.  I find it so much easier to print them off when I use them often, rather that searching for them again and again online. 
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      Now, on to the rest of my menu!  Deviled Eggs are a must. Some croissants with various fillings to choose from?  Do you have any great ideas for me?  Let me know in the comments with a link to your recipe!  I am open for some wonderful ideas! Thanks! I'll let you know the final menu soon.
       I can't forget a nice tablescape as well! 
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April J Harris link
4/18/2019 09:30:26 am

What a lovely cake roll, Helen! I really like the idea of using carrots like this! Happy Easter to you and yours.

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Sylvia link
4/18/2019 11:53:14 am

Yummy! My hubby would love this! Thanks for linkingup with us at the #WednesdayAIMLinkParty 35

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Miz Helen link
4/20/2019 09:00:30 am

We will just love your Carrot Cake Roll, it looks so good! Thanks so much for sharing your post with us this week and hope you have a very special weekend!
Miz Helen

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Dee | Grammy's Grid link
4/20/2019 01:37:12 pm

Cake looks good, I bet it tastes good too!

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