Check out this recipe for Rikers Island prison carrot cake. Apparently its the favorite of the inmates. If it’s good enough for Rikers, it should be good enough for you, your family, and literally…your 12,999 closest friends. Just gotta make 100 of the batches below:
Rikers Island Carrot Cake
25 pounds sugar
3 gallons vegetable oil
25 pounds flour
8 ounces salt
1 pound baking powder
8 ounces baking soda
6 ounces nutmeg
6 ounces allspice
4 ounces clove powder
4 ounces ginger
8 ounces cinnamon
25 pounds carrots
25 pounds eggs
8 pounds walnuts
20 pounds raisins
8 ounces vanilla extract
1. Place in a mixing bowl – sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, clove powder, allspice, baking powder, baking sods, salt. Using a paddle mix on slow for five minutes.
2. Add raisins, carrots, walnuts, eggs, vegetable oil and vanilla extract mix on slow speed for an additional five minutes.
3. Increase speed to medium for 10 minutes.
4. Pour into loaf pans. Pans should be three-quarters full.
5. Bake at 350° for 40 minutes.
Each batch makes 25 loaves of carrot cake.
Maybe cut this recipe by 25? Now THAT’S a math problem you can sink your teeth into. Heh. Heh. Heh. Why do I suddenly feel like that guy from reading rainbow?
