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    Carrot: Best Carot Cake-Southern Living


    Source of Recipe


    Southern Living Magazine, October 1997

    List of Ingredients




    2 cups all-purpose flour
    2 teaspoons baking soda
    1/2 teaspoon salt
    2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
    3 large eggs
    2 cups sugar
    3/4 cup vegetable oil
    3/4 cup buttermilk
    2 teaspoons vanilla extract
    2 cups grated carrot
    1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
    1 (3 1/2 ounce) can flaked coconut
    1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
    Buttermilk Glaze (recipe follows)
    Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe follows)

    Recipe



    Line 3 (9-inch) round cake pans with wax paper; lightly grease and flour wax paper. Set pans aside.

    Stir together first 4 ingredients; set aside.

    Beat eggs and next 4 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth. Add flour mixture, beating at low speed until blended.

    Fold in carrot and next 3 ingredients. Pour batter into prepared cake pans.

    Bake at 350 degrees F for 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.

    Drizzle Buttermilk Glaze evenly over layers; cool in pans on wire racks 15 minutes. Remove from pans, and cool completely on wire racks.

    Spread Cream Cheese Frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake.

    BUTTERMILK GLAZE
    Makes 1 1/2 cups

    1 cup sugar
    1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
    1/2 cup buttermilk
    1/2 cup butter or margarine
    1 tablespoon light corn syrup
    1 teaspoon vanilla extract

    Bring first 5 ingredients to a boil in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Boil, stirring often, 4 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in vanilla.

    CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
    Makes 4 cups

    3/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
    1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
    1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
    3 cups sifted powdered sugar
    1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

    Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Add powdered sugar and vanilla; beat until smooth.

    Makes 1 (9-inch) cake

 

 

 


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