Really Good Carrot Cake Recipe?

brenda newton
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January 21, 20050 found this helpful

Carrot Cake

1 cup cooking oil
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
Beat together and add the following:
2 1/4 cups flour
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp salt
Stir in:
2 cups shredded carrots
1 cup flaked cocunut (sweetened or unsweetened, whatever you have)
1 8 oz. can crushed pineapple. (1/2 cup)

Pour into well greased 9 x 13 pan and bake at 350 F for 50 to 60 minutes.

Frosting:

1 3 oz cream cheese
1/4 cup melted margarine/butter
2 Tbsp. milk
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups icing sugar

Enjoy!! I do not like nuts in my carrot cake but they could be put in this recipe if you wished.

Gail

January 21, 20050 found this helpful

New Zealand Microwave Carrot Cake

1+1/2 cups plain flour
1+1/2 tspns. baking powder
1+1/2 tspns. baking soda
3/4 tspn salt
2 tspns cinnamon
1/2 cup white sugar

Mix the above ingredients together then add.....

1 cup cooking oil
3 eggs
1 cup grated carrot
225gm. tin crushed pineapple
1/2 cup sultanas

Pour mixture into a MICROWAVE ring cake tin and cook on ELEVATED stand on HIGH power (my microwave is 900watts) for 13 - 15 minutes.
Stand the cake in its tin for 10 minutes BEFORE removing.
Ice with a cream cheese icing (I think you people know icing as frosting?) of your choice.

Makes a really nice, moist carrot cake in under 1/2 an hour.

Hope you are able to convert my metric measurements into US measurements.
ENJOY!

tiffany

January 22, 20050 found this helpful

This recipe was my boyfriend's Grandmothers recipe and it's really good!

CARROT CAKE
2 c. sugar
2 tsp. baking soda
1/3 c. buttermilk
3 c. flour

ICING:
1 c. frozen orange juice
1 c. sugar

Cream sugar, eggs, and oil. Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk. Sift flour and cinnamon and add to creamed mixture. Add buttermilk, carrots, and lemon extract. Bake in a 9x13 greased pan in 350 degree oven for 1 hour. Pour icing over cake while warm. Let set for 2 hours before cutting.

hi, i made a tastey carrot cake but some of the shredded carrots turned green! it looks like zuchinni. how does this happen? and it tastes fine if you don;t think about it.

Hi, Bert in Oregon!

This is Brenda in Ottawa, Ontario. I have a page dedicated to The Best-Ever Carrot Cake which really is (at least in my opinion) delicious. You might enjoy checking it out at www.squidoo.com/carrotcake

Brenda