carrot cake

A good friend of mine whom I haven't seen since December is very briefly in town this weekend. His birthday was yesterday, so I told him I'd make him a cake; he chose cake of the carrot variety. I hope he likes it! It's as much work as I remember, but also just as delicious.

Also, I made some gnocchi and somehow messed it up. How do you mess up gnocchi? Anyway, I had the genius idea of deep frying them as I was trying to figure out how to save it. I didn't do it this time, but I might try it someday.