What better way to start the week?
This morning, my friend Cristina introduced me to one of her dad’s favourite hangouts, La Iguana Café, where we each had an enormous pork sandwich before I started to investigate the cake menu. I’m all for a balanced diet…
Top marks for 100% home-made tastiness. Moist, not too sweet, thoroughly satisfying.
I absolutely loved this succulent carrot cake! It clearly did not come out of some factory, all standardised, sterilised, packed up and frozen, but was made by a real person in their kitchen.
La Iguana Café’s burgers are legendary, apparently.
On our way there, we spotted this rather appealing piece of graffiti:
The writing refers to every-day concerns, as well as social (in)justice issues, all of which, I’m sure, swirl around the average person’s head. She still manages to keep on smiling, like most of us do, at least on a good day 🙂
Lady Of The Cakes 
It looks like a super delicious way to start the day
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It sure was 🙂 …I was just soooo torn between the lemon meringue and the carrot cake. I’ll try the other one in a couple of weeks, when we’ll be back in that part of town.
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Carrot cake is one of my all time favourite desserts. In fact, as a reward for the Grand Canyon business, we bought one from Whole Foods on Saturday. I had a slice Sat night and another last night. 🙂
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How very abstemious of you… I’d have scoffed the lot by now!
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Oh it has tested my willpower, to be sure. Only saving grace is that hubby’s last two dinners were both delicious and filling. Despite the lack of room though, I pounded back those slices of cake like a champ. 🙂
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No matter how filling a meal, I always find room for CAKE 😉
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Evidently I do, too. 🙂
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Carrot cake is my absolute favourite! And I loved that graffiti too – beautiful and very clever at the same time.
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You can hardly ever go wrong with carrot cake, I find, unless they absolutely drown it in sticky icing.
For Toledanean graffiti, it’s rather sophisticated, lol.
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You don’t mean vanilla butter icing, do you? I LOVE that! Especially with a bit of rum sneaked in. 🙂
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Carrot cake is one of my favourites 🙂
Good to see you had the pork and vegetables!! Very balanced diet 😉
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And of course, since carrot cake contains carrots, that also counts as one of your “five a day”….
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That’s always been my theory, and I’m sticking to it 😉
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Yaay!
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Hmm, I’m not convinced that dragon WAS vegetarian….the carrot cake sounds lovely, my kind husband sometimes makes me vegan carrot cake! 🙂
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Maybe he’s deluding himself that his pre-café life as an insectivore counts as having been vegetarian…
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So he was an entomopharian…(I had to look that up… )
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So that’s why he’s got dreadlocks (sort of)!
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That carrot cake looks divine!
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…that reminds me of how much I miss your cookery posts…!
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Aw, thank you. I’m not that inspired to cook here as I’m working too much. So it’s just a grab and go.
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What’s your new job?
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Waitress at a high end restaurant.
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That spells decent tips!
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It really does! Woot woot!
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That looks fantastic! But where is the pork? Didn’t it last long enough for a photo!?
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We were starving…
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Hog 😉
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That’s what we ordered 🙂
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😉
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It may be sacrilegious of me, but I think the whole purpose of carrot cake is to support copious amounts of cream cheese icing. In fact, I think cream cheese icing is perfect on just about anything 🙂
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Well… I’m kinda in the go-easy-on-the-icing camp… but whatever does it for you 😉
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I agree! 🙂
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So enjoyable, wish I could be tagging along.
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Anytime, just give me a shout 🙂
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omg yum!! I love carrot cake too. 🙂
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Carrot cake and lemon merengue? How on earth did you choose? I would have had to eat one there and sneak one home in my purse.
Recently a pie shop opened in our local public library. Makes me want to go to the library all the time!
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Ooooooh! I think you should definitely do another cake post. I still remember the cronuts…
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I consider carrot cake so American, it’s weird to read about it in Spain.
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I’ve read somewhere that it’s originally Australian…but Wiki says “it’s origins are disputed”. I don’t care… as long as it meets its end in my digestive tract 😉
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Mmm, it looks so good that I’m tempted to go and make carrot cake right now. In fact, yes I will…just off to check I have all the ingredients 🙂
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I WANT SOME!!!!
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nom nom!
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You’re too late… I’ve scoffed the lot 😉
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😢
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Carot’s cake… yummi! My favorite (with a sprinkle of nutmeg or cinnamon… and some
orange peel, too). Hugs :-)c
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Go post me some 🙂
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Oh God, that looks gooooooood! And I do like that thoughtful graffiti.
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Yes, I think we an both relate to that graffiti…!
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That dragon was probably one of those “vegetarians” who only eats chicken, and a bit of salmon now and then… The cake does look divine. I have plans to make rhubarb coffee cake today. If it turns out decently, I will post a pic!
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He’s Mr Iguana! Cake pics – Yes please!!!!
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Ah, I get the joke. Iguanas are strict vegetarians!
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Are you baking me that cake yet…?
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Mentally, I have already baked and consumed it. In real life, maybe this afternoon…
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I’ll be here… in quiet expectation…
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Yum! I love carrot cake – how did we not have any?!
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Now she tells me… You said you were not a cake person!
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*NORMALLY* not a cake person! But I always make exceptions on vacation!
We’ll just have to make up for it next time! 🙂
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We shall 🙂
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Yummmmy! I love carrot cake, but I rarely make it because grating all those carrots is just too much work!
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You make lots of other nice cakes instead 🙂
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I’m currently having vague thoughts about some kind of chocolate orange muffin…
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And I’ve just come across this:
http://www.dairyreporter.com/Manufacturers/Russian-dairy-crosses-out-devilish-barcodes-in-battle-with-Satan
Which has nothing to do with muffins, but I just had to share it with someone…!
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Whaaaat???
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Anna’s just told me that she’d not actually seen any of those red crosses in the supermarkets herself. But still…! If only it were April 1st…!
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Umm – cake. Think I would like a higher icing to cake ratio, but other than that it looks spot on!
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I think I’d probably wolf down anything made by you, regardless of ratios…
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is that mint and blueberries on top? double yum. and great shot of this homemade beauty – I could feel the moistness before I read that in your words – also – cool art and I like what you wrote about the ideas swirling – such a short post yet a bit provoking – hm – have a nice day!
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Yup, mint and bloobs 😉
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