Carrot cake (with a twist)
10 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | cups | Flour |
| 2 | cups | Sugar |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 2 | teaspoons | Baking soda |
| 2 | teaspoons | Baking powder |
| 1 | cup | Salad oil |
| 1 | teaspoon | Cinnamon |
| 1 | teaspoon | Allspice |
| 4 | Eggs | |
| 1 | Orange | |
| 2 | cups | Finely grated carrots (up to) |
| ¾ | cup | Chopped walnuts (or pecans) |
| 1 | pack | (8-oz) cream cheese |
| 1 | pounds | Icing sugar (up to) |
| 3 | tablespoons | Oil or orange juice |
| 1 | tablespoon | Grated orange peel |
Directions
ICING
submitted by: zarina@... (Zarina Alloo, Minneapolis, MN) Here's my FAVORITE carrot cake recipe. It is always a hit at gatherings and has become my most-requested cake recipe. The "secret" is the ORANGE! Personally, I do not like raisins in carrot cake and am glad this one doesn't require them. If it did, I would simply omit them.
Sift dry ingredients into a large bowl. Add oil and stir well making a very stiff mixture. Set aside. Wash orange and cut into small pieces (leave the peel on!). Put the orange pieces in a blender container and adding one egg at a time, beat the mixture until it is smooth and foamy. Add this mixture to the stiff mixture that was set aside. Mix well. Add 2 cups of grated carrots, mix and then add the nuts. Blend the mixture well.
Pour batter into a well-greased or oiled tube pan (bundt pan). Bake in a pre-heated oven at 350 F for 40-50 minutes. The cake is done when it starts shrinking from the sides of the pan. Cool the cake in the pan for 10-15 minutes then invert it onto a cooling rack. Cool completely before icing it (recipe for icing follows).
Notes: Instead of using a tube pan, you can bake the cake in a 9"x13" rectangular baking pan. In this case, reduce the baking time to 35 minutes or until done. The cake tastes equally good without the icing. I only ice it on special occasions. Store leftovers in the refrigerator.
Icing: Cream cheese should be at room temperature. Mix all the ingredients together to form a smooth paste.
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