While Mother’s Day was yesterday I still have a recipe I want to share with you that is inspired by my mom. Bringing together two cakes that my mom specializes in, carrot cake and cheesecake. I have been working on this for the past week and it’s a hit here in the house. For the past 2 days we have been living on cheesecake. Andrea got hers for Mother’s Day yesterday, the neighbors helped me along with the taste test and now we are left with a few not so successful iterations but still very delicious. No complaints here.

Back to the carrot- cheesecake fusion, I wanted to create something new involving carrot cake. Why carrot cake you might ask… My mom has been making carrot cake ever since I can remember. She gifts them to people for special occasions so much, that people starting ordering cakes from her. The start of her low-key side-hustle empire. To this day I haven’t tasted a carrot cake that approximates the greatness of my mom’s carrot cake. Therefore, I would not be creating my own version of that, but combining two cakes into one and who doesn’t like cheesecake.

So, while perfecting this carrot- cheesecake fusion recipe last week, I grated and chopped quite a few carrots and walnuts. Brought me right back to my childhood of helping my mom in the kitchen, and grating the carrots for her. Nowadays I have my trusted food processor I can count on, but I keep forgetting to order the broken pieces and have been doing everything by hand for the past few weeks.