Carrot Layer Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 21
- Serves:
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10
ingredients
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Cake
- 1 3⁄4 cups sugar
- 1 1⁄4 cups vegetable oil
- 1⁄4 cup orange juice
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon finely grated orange zest
- 4 large eggs
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 3 cups finely grated peeled carrots
- 3⁄4 cup chopped pecans
- 1⁄2 cup raisins (optional - I never seem to use them) (optional)
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Frosting
- 2 1⁄2 cups powdered sugar
- 12 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 1⁄2 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1⁄3 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
directions
- For cake: Preheat oven to 325°F.
- Lightly grease two 9-inch-diameter cake pans with 1 1/2-inch-high sides.
- Line bottom of pans with waxed paper or parchment.
- Lightly grease waxed paper.
- Using electric mixer, beat sugar, vegetable oil, juice, vanilla extract and zest in bowl until combined.
- Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg into sugar and oil mixture.
- Stir in carrots, chopped pecans and raisins.
- Pour batter into prepared pans, dividing equally.
- Bake until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean and cakes begin to pull away from sides of pans, about 45 minutes.
- Cool in pans on racks 15 minutes.
- Turn out cakes onto racks and cool completely.
- (Can be made 1 day ahead. Wrap tightly in plastic and store at room temperature.) For frosting: Using electric mixer, beat all ingredients in medium bowl until smooth and creamy.
- Place 1 cake layer on platter.
- Spread with a bit less than 1/2 the frosting.
- Top with the remaining cake layer.
- Using icing spatula, spread remaining frosting in decorative swirls over sides and top of cake.
- Serve cake cold or at room temperature.
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.