The Dahlhouse Recipes

Carrot Cake

Ingredients:

Cake
2 cups Flour
2 tsp Cinnamon
2 tsp Baking soda
2 tsp Baking powder, double acting
1 tsp Salt
2 cups Carrots, shredded
2 cups Sugar, granulated
1 cup Vegetable oil
4 eggs, unbeaten
1 cup Pecans, chopped

Icing
1/4 lb Butter
8 oz Cream cheese
1 box Congectioner's sugar
2 tsps Vanilla extract

Directions:

Cake
Sift dry ingredients, except sugar, together. Mix sugar with oil in an electric mixer. Add dry ingredients alternately with the eggs to the sugar and oil, mixing after each addition. Add carrots and nuts. Bake at 350o for 1 hour in a 9" tube pan with the bottom greased.

Icing
Allow butter and cheese to soften. Mix together and blend in the sugar. Add the vanilla.

Posted by dahl at September 7, 2003 03:49 PM