Carrot Cake With Toasted Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 18
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
-
Cake
- 177.44 ml all-purpose flour
- 59.14 ml quick-cooking oats
- 7.39 ml ground cinnamon
- 4.92 ml baking powder
- 2.46 ml baking soda
- 1.23 ml salt
- 236.59 ml granulated sugar
- 59.14 ml canola oil
- 70.87 g jar carrot baby food
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 295.73 ml finely grated carrots (about 4 ounces)
- 118.29 ml golden raisin
- cooking spray
-
Frosting
- 78.78 ml reduced-fat cream cheese, softened
- 14.79 ml butter, softened
- 295.73 ml powdered sugar, sifted
- 2.46 ml vanilla extract
- 59.14 ml sweetened flaked coconut, toasted
directions
- Preheat oven to 325°F.
- To prepare cake: Combine flour and next 5 ingredients (through salt) in a food processor; pulse 6 times or until well blended. Place flour mixture in a large bowl.
- Combine granulated sugar, canola oil, baby food, and eggs; stir with a whisk.
- Add to flour mixture; stir just until moist.
- Stir in grated carrot and raisins.
- Spoon batter into an 8-inch square baking pan coated with cooking spray.
- Bake for 40 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack.
- To prepare frosting, combine cheese and butter in a large bowl.
- Beat at high speed until creamy.
- Gradually add powdered sugar and vanilla, beating at low speed until smooth (do not overbeat).
- Spread over cake; sprinkle with coconut.
- Cover and chill.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Vino Girl
United States
My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
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