Dear Pat...

I don't know who you are, but I would just like to thank you for sharing your carrot cake recipe on All Recipes.

Your 'award winning' carrot cake is my GO TO dessert recipe and it makes everyone - and I mean EVERYONE - so happy when I bake one. I have tweaked your recipe...only because I like to add a wee bit of nutmeg, but other than that it is tres delicious!

Of course, carrot cake isn't carrot cake without the obligatory cream cheese frosting {made from scratch}. Your cake + homemade cream cheese frosting = NOM NOM NOM!

I absolutely, positively cannot wait to get home from work and enjoy a slice of this:

Having a slice of your carrot cake {baked to perfection by moi...no shame!} seriously takes the edge off of the 'work-to-home' transition part of my day {and, it's a way to get in a serving of vegetables, right?}. Suddenly, the housework doesn't seem so important, the laundry can wait & who cares what the kids are fighting about...when I lift that fork full of carrot cake to my mouth, everything around me ceases to exist. Only when I am scraping up the last bit of frosting do I snap back to reality.

*sigh*

Anyways, thank you, Pat. You rock...you are my carrot cake savior!