Grandmas Carrot Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Yields:
-
1 cake
- Serves:
- 10-12
ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 -3 teaspoons cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons wheat germ
- 1 teaspoon allspice
- 1 tablespoon buttermilk
- 4 1⁄3 ounces canned carrots
- 1⁄2 cup walnuts
- 1 cup real butter
- 1 (8 ounce) box cream cheese
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 lb powdered sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon lemon juice
directions
- drain the carrots and mash them in large bowl.
- in a separate bowl mix the salt, allspice, cinnamon, wheat germ,baking soda, and flour.
- in another bowl whip the eggs til smooth.
- add the sugar and the vegetable oil and cream together.
- add the flour mixture and the egg mixture to the carrots, whip til mixed well.
- add the buttermilk and the walnuts and mix again.
- bake at 350 degrees in a well oiled and floured cake pan for 50 minutes.
- cool completely.
- mix the softened butter, softened cream cheese, vanilla, sugar, and lemon.
- frost the cake and enjoy.
- ps. i have been known to add another box of cream cheese and another
- stick of butter, more calories but oh so tasty.
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Reviews
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I was looking for a way to use up my canned carrots.. This was very moist and cooked perfectly within the 50 mins. The cream cheese frosting made a lot so the kids got big spoonfuls to snack on after the cake was frosted. Yummy stuff! Thanks so much for sharing your grandmother's wonderful carrot cake! Oh, and all my kids turned their nose up at the mention of "carrot" cake,but all of them enjoyed it! I will make again.
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i guess i should update, mj is home for the time being, waiting on orders to go back, i guess that is what you get when you are married to a soldier boy, he is the love of my life, we have our little holy terra, our grandbaby and she is a handful!!! but the the light of our lives, we are now in az taking care of the old ladies,(my mother and grandmother) who cant take care of themselves, grandma just had hip replacement and mama has ocpd, so at least we are warm, it is beautiful living out here in the middle of now where in the desert, but miss my kids, and am going to miss mj when he leaves in april may god bless you all and your families