Old-Fashioned Carrot Cake

Name: Old-Fashioned Carrot Cake
Prep time: 1 h 5 min
Cook time: 1 h 5 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoons baking soda; 118 milliliters butter, softened; 237 milliliters canola oil; 473 milliliters grated carrots; 710 milliliters confectioners sugar; 85 grams package cream cheese, softened; 4 eggs; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 0 teaspoons ground nutmeg; 2 Tbsps 2% milk; 12 servings Orange and green food coloring, optional; 0 teaspoons salt; 473 milliliters sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 237 milliliters chopped walnuts

This recipe makes 12 servings with 527 calories, 6g of protein, and 20g of fat each. This recipe covers 11% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet. Easter will be even more special with this recipe. Head to the store and pick up milk, canolan oil, sugar, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour and 5 minutes.

Instructions

In a large bowl, combine the eggs, sugar and oil.

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Cooking Oil

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Combine the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, salt and nutmeg; beat into egg mixture. Stir in carrots.

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Cinnamon

Carrot

Nutmeg

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Egg

Pour into two greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans.

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Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.

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For frosting, in another large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar.

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Cream Cheese

Frosting

Vanilla

Butter

Cream

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Add enough milk to achieve desired spreading consistency. Reserve 1/2 cup frosting for decorating if desired. Stir walnuts into remaining frosting.

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Milk

Spread frosting between layers and over top and sides of cake. If decorating the cake, tint 1/4 cup reserved frosting orange and 1/4 cup green.

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Orange

Spread

Cut a small hole in the corner of pastry or plastic bag; insert #7 round pastry tip. Fill the bag with orange frosting. Pipe twelve carrots on top of cake, so that each slice will have a carrot. Using #67 leaf pastry tip and the green frosting, pipe a leaf at the top of each carrot.

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Frosting

Carrot

Orange

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