The carrots are building up in our refrigerator from the ample amount Nichols has put in the shares this year. We’re planning to use some of the carrots for carrot cake as a different format for enjoying them. The rainbow carrots might add a fun variation to a typical carrot cake. Or it might just look a little ugly since the purple/red colors are due to anthocyanins which are water-soluble and pH sensitive (cakes are typically slightly alkaline from the baking soda/powder).
“Supersweet winter” isn’t the variety of these carrots, rather it describes the timing of their planting and harvesting. Once cold weather hits, carrots that are still in the ground convert starches to sugar. In that context, these are early winter carrots but the sweetness is already there. The carrots are building up in our refrigerator from the ample amount Nichols has put in the shares this year so we’re planning to use these for carrot cake as a different format for enjoying them.
One of our favorite aspects of carrots is how long they’ll last. Lisa and I still have carrots from the last time we received them in shares, back in early August. Every now and then we’ll use half a carrot here or there for something but usually preferring to use up other veggies.
