Fabulous Carrot Cake
Fabulous Carrot Cake is a vegetarian recipe with 20 servings. One serving contains 405 calories, 4g of protein, and 19g of fat. This recipe covers 11% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have baking soda, lemon juice, powdered sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is perfect for Easter. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 55 minutes.
Instructions
Beat 1 cup butter and sugars until light and fluffy in large bowl. Beat in eggs. Beat in crushed pineapple, carrots, raisins and vanilla.
Stir together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger and salt in medium bowl. Gradually add to pineapple mixture and beat until well blended.
Pour into 2 9-inch greased and floured cake pans.
Bake at 350 degrees F 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool in pans 15 minutes.
Remove from pans; cool completely on wire racks.
Beat cream cheese with remaining 1/2 cup butter until smooth. Beat in powdered sugar, lemon peel and juice until smooth.
Spread frosting over cakes.
Garnish with additional crushed pineapple and grated carrots, if desired.