Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing Recipe
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Carrot Cake |
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Ingredients: 1½ cups flour
1½ tsp. baking powder
1¼ tsp. baking soda
¾ tsp. salt
2 tsp. cinnamon
1½ cups sugar
1 cup oil
3 eggs
2 cups grated carrots
½ cup chopped pecans or walnuts (optional)
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Directions:Heat oven to 350º F. Combine dry ingredients except sugar. Then add sugar, oil, and eggs. Mix well. Stir in carrots. Bake for approximately 40 minutes (check for doneness). |
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Cream Cheese Icing |
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Ingredients: ¼ cup margarine
1 pkg. cream cheese
2 cups icing sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
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Directions:Blend all of the ingredients until smooth and fluffy. Spread on cooled carrot cake. |
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Notes: If you double this recipe, bake for at least 45 minutes. I've made this recipe in muffin tins (because who doesn't love a little cake you can call a muffin?) and they really puff up so make them small - maybe 18? Bake for 30 minutes.
I don't care for cream cheese icing so I usually don't ice this cake. To keep it moist, however, I learned this little trick... You make a sugar-water mixture and mist it lightly onto the cooled cake from a spray bottle. It makes a bit of a crunchy top on the cake that is really satisfying.
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