Carrot Cake

Category: Desserts

Cuisine: American

Ready in 1 hour

Ingredients

Orange zest 1/3" by 3"

2 ts Ground cinnamon

1 ts Vanilla

1 8-oz can Crushed pineapple

1 1/2 ts Baking soda

4 Eggs

1 1/2 c Vegetable oil

1 ts Salt

6 oz Cream cheese cut in chunks

6 tb Butter cut in chunks

2 c Sugar

2 c Powdered sugar

2 c All-purpose flour unsifted

2 ts Baking Powder

4 md Carrots shredded

1/2 c Walnuts coarsely chopped


Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, combine sugar and eggs; blend in oil and mix. Stir mixture into dry ingredients. Stir in shredded carrots, chopped nuts and pineapple. Pour batter into greased and flour-dusted 9" by 13" baking pan or 10" bundt pan. Bake for 45 minutes (55 minutes for bundt pan), or until pick inserted in center comes out clean. Make Cream-Cheese Frosting: Mix orange zest (or one drop or oil or 1 tsp. dried orange peel), cream cheese and butter thoroughly. Add vanilla and powdered sugar and mix well. Makes enough to frost a 9" by 13" cake. Frost cake when it is thoroughly cooled. Nutritional Information per serving: 675 calories (53% from fat), protein 5.7 g, fat 40.3 g (poly 7.0 g, mono 19.9 g, sat 10.4 g), carb 75.8 g, fiber 1.1 g, chol 91 mg, iron 1.8 mg, sodium 522 mg, calcium 94 mg. Recipe by: Adapted from Sunset Food Processor Cookbook Posted to Bakery-Shoppe Digest V1 #183 by "Cathy L. Lielausis" <cathylielausis@mindspring.com> on Aug 06, 1997

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