Carrot Cake - Easter Style

In this lab we made carrot cake in the form of Easter eggs! It was really fun to decorate and tasty too.

 

This is the mold we used; there were two different patterns, one was an Easter egg, the other was an chick in an egg. Both were really cute!

The ingredients and the the steps for the cake

My group is always indecisive so we could choose between using walnuts and raisins, so we halved the batter and used both. 

I put the raisins in water to make them plump and hydrated.

Our finished baked cake! 

My cake didn't end up how I wanted to look >.< But it still tasted good (the buttercream a little too sweet though)!

Ukrainian Easter Eggs

Pulla

Pulla is a mildly sweet Finnish sweet roll/ dessert bread that is flavored with crushed cardamom seeds and is either braided or rolled.

This bread was similar yet unlike any bread that I ever made. Tender texture, slightly sweet, spiced with cardamom, and flat-out beautiful. 

We grounded the cardamom seeds ourselves, which was fun to do. 

Here we divided our dough into threes, since one of our group members was gone on a field trip. We, then, divided the piece we each had in 3, 4 and 5 strips.

And here was the fun part! Braiding the bread!

 I did a five braid one 

A group mate did a normal three braided one

 And I made my sister make a four braided one (it's really hard) 

Since we had some left-over dough left, Faith and I braided it and then curled it to make a circle.

 We brushed each loaf with egg wash and sprinkled it with course white sugar.