00:00Cake, cake, cake.
00:03I love carrot cake because it is one of the freshest cakes you can ever have.
00:09Mm, mm, mm.
00:11Carrots, raisins, some cinnamon, some delicious frosting.
00:16Okay, when you said raisins, I cringe.
00:18It's an experience.
00:19Enjoy the ride.
00:20Here's the thing.
00:21I just equated you to carrot cake.
00:24Mm-hmm.
00:24And I love you.
00:27So I feel like it's only fair to give carrot cake a chance.
00:37Are you ready?
00:39If it's going to be anywhere, it's going to be here because this smell is so good.
00:42I'm ready.
00:43Let's take in the smell together.
00:48Yay, let's go!
00:50I'm ready.
00:56I heard that you were in the business of converting people into carrot cake lovers.
01:00That's second nature to us.
01:02Okay.
01:02Converting people.
01:03And we have so many testimonials, so we are ready for the challenge.
01:07So can you tell us why carrot cake?
01:09This is a business that my husband started some 35 years ago.
01:12Wow.
01:13He had recipes that were his family, and he decided to make it his own.
01:18Yeah.
01:18And that was really the genesis of Lloyd's carrot cake.
01:21Is it possible for us to see how the magic and all the love happens?
01:25Absolutely.
01:26Come with me.
01:27Awesome.
01:28Okay.
01:28It smells even better back here.
01:29I wish you guys could smell it.
01:31When we say Lloyd's carrot cake is made from scratch, we literally mean that because,
01:36as you can see, these are all just wholesome ingredients.
01:39There's no artificial anything here.
01:41So what we do is we start with our oil.
01:44All right.
01:44Eggs and our sugar.
01:45And if you can just pour that in the mixing bowl.
01:48In that?
01:49Me?
01:50Yes, you.
01:51Yes, you.
01:51I have to confess.
01:52I have never baked a cake from scratch.
01:54All right.
01:54Well, you're baking one now.
01:56So now we put in our sugar.
02:01Next, we have our eggs.
02:02Empress, are you going to help out with this task?
02:03I will help out with this task.
02:06Don't mess up.
02:12Nice.
02:17So now we have our smooth creamy texture.
02:21Yeah.
02:21We're going to get the dry ingredients.
02:22Here we go.
02:23So what's in here?
02:24It's flour.
02:25We have our flour.
02:26Yep.
02:26Cinnamon.
02:27We have baking powder, baking soda, some salt.
02:30Oh God, it's heavy.
02:31Yeah, yeah.
02:32How many pounds of carrots is this?
02:34We have 27 cups of carrots here.
02:47Oh, you're so strong.
02:49Pour this, pour this out.
02:50Look at all that deliciousness.
02:54So this is the batter.
02:56This is the part where we add the nuts and raisins.
02:59Hannah, are you ready for this?
03:00Okay, when you said raisins, I crunched.
03:02Wow.
03:05We've come this far.
03:06We might as well just go big.
03:07You might as well.
03:08We might as well go big.
03:08So Hannah, why don't you do the pleasure of putting in the raisins?
03:13What do you say?
03:14More raisins.
03:15All the raisins.
03:17That's good.
03:17That's good?
03:17Oh, that's good.
03:18This is the nuts within carrot cake.
03:21They're all nuts that we use.
03:22They're my favorite.
03:23And then we're going to stir that up.
03:29Alright, so this goes into the oven.
03:32Alrighty.
03:35Our baby!
03:37So we have our signature cream cheese frosting.
03:40Okay.
03:41Right, it's simply made with cream cheese butter and vanilla.
03:43That is the extent of our cream cheese frosting.
03:51No pressure.
03:52Yeah, hold it with one hand.
03:54Or whatever makes you comfortable.
03:56Okay.
03:57One hand is good.
03:58Alright.
03:58This thing is heavy.
04:00Yes.
04:01The slather.
04:02There you go.
04:03Let's move that baby out.
04:13Now's the true test.
04:14How will it taste?
04:28Alright.
04:29Here goes nothing.
04:30Cheers.
04:33Oh.
04:34Oh my God.
04:35There's...
04:35I'm so scared.
04:36Okay.
04:41What's going on?
04:43What are you tasting?
04:44What's happening in your house?
04:46Oh my.
04:47Exactly.
04:48So much goodness, like I said earlier.
04:50It's really good.
04:55No, it's really good.
04:56And another one.
04:57I got another cup.
04:58100% conversion rate.
05:00It's so good.
05:02Wonderful.
05:03Wonderful.
05:04I did not think it was possible.
05:07I do not think that all carrot cakes are created equal.
05:09I think that they have something very special here.
05:12And it's hard to find something that's made with this much love.
05:15Yes.
05:16But I love it.
05:17So bite me.
05:18I'm a convert.
05:19I like carrot cake now.
