Fabulous Carrot Cake!

Submitted by Christine

• Ready In: 1hr 10mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• CAKE

• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 3 cups finely shredded carrots
• 1 cup oil
• 4 eggs
• 3⁄4 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

• ICING

• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
• 1⁄2 - 1 cup margarine
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 3 1⁄2 - 4 cups powdered sugar

directions

1. Mix dry cake ingredients.
2. Add carrots, oil and eggs.
3. Stir till all is wet.
4. Add nuts, (optional) Put in greased and floured 9 x 13 inch pan.
5. Bake at 325* for 50-55 minutes .
6. Cool.
7. Cream together cream cheese, margarine, vanilla Add powdered sugar.
8. Spread over cooled cake.

Reviews

[Recipewrestler]

Made this cake for World 'Zaar day and my hubbie's birthday. He loved the cake and icing. I think if I made it again I would add some vanilla extract to the cake. In the Deep South pecans are traditional for carrot cakes, but I tried the walnuts and they were good. I mixed them into the frosting too.

 

[Norahs Girl]

I also used Butter and added 1/4 tsp of ground nutmeg and cloves.Nice moist cake and kept well.

 

[Aytul Ulutekin]

I tried the cake with carrtos first and it was very tasty. Then I swiched the carrots with apples and added some more chunky apples in the middle of the cake with 1 cup of walnuts. Worths trying...

 

[Nick Koss]

I used butter instead of margarine; 6 carrots, 5 eggs, 3 spoons of vanilla and made some other (less dramatic) changes. The cake worked out great though! Thanks!!!

 

[Sageca]

The best and you can freeze it.