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Desserts-Cake: All Time Best Carrot Cake

Source of Recipe

www.amethysts-recipes.com


List of Ingredients

1/12 cup cocoa powder
2 cups self-rising flour
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-1/2 cups vegetable oil
2 cups grated carrots
1 cup crushed pineapple, undrained
Cream Cheese Icing (below)


Recipe

Preheat oven to 350°F.  Spray 3 9-inch cake pans with non-stick vegetable spray.
In a large bowl, combine cocoa powder, flour, and sugar.
In a medium bowl, combine eggs, vanilla, and oil; beat until blended.  Add to flour mixture; mix until well blended.  Stir in carrots and pineapple.  Pour into prepared cake pans.
Bake for 30 minutes or until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean.  Cool in cake pans for 10 minutes.  Remove from cake pans; cool completely on a wire rack.  Fill and frost the cake with Cream Cheese Icing.
 
CREAM CHEESE ICING
1 8-ounce package cream cheese,   softened
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup confectioners’ sugar
1/2 cup flaked coconut
1 cup chopped walnuts
In a medium bowl, combine cream cheese, butter, and confectioner’s sugar; beat until smooth and well blended.  Fold in coconut and walnuts.