Old-Fashioned Carrot Cake
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Yields:
-
1 frosted cake
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
-
CAKE
- 4 eggs
- 473.18 ml sugar
- 354.88 ml vegetable oil
- 473.18 ml all-purpose flour
- 9.85-14.78 ml cinnamon
- 4.92 ml baking powder
- 4.92 ml baking soda
- 1.23 ml salt
- 1.23 ml ground nutmeg
- 473.18 ml grated carrots
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FROSTING
- 118.29 ml butter or 118.29 ml margarine, softened
- 85.04 g cream cheese, softened
- 887.21 ml confectioners' sugar
- 4.92 ml vanilla
- 29.58-44.37 ml milk
- 236.59 ml chopped walnuts
- carrot curls or more walnuts, for garnishing (optional)
directions
- CAKE: In a mixing bowl combine eggs, sugar and oil; mix well.
- Combine flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg, and beat into egg mixture.
- Stir in carrots.
- Pour into two greased and floured 9 inch round baking pans.
- Bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
- Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.
- FROSTING: Cream butter and cream cheese in a mixing bowl.
- Gradually beat in confectioner's sugar and vanilla.
- Add enough milk to achieve desired spreading consistency.
- Stir in walnuts.
- Spread frosting between layers and over tops and sides of cake.
- Garnish with carrots and walnuts if desired.
- Refridgerate left overs.
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