Awesome Carrot Cake recipe
Posted on Wed 28 Feb 2007 at 10:47 in Recipes
Excellent Carrot Cake Recipe #52104
Chock full of flavor, this is the best carrot cake! It tastes even
better the next day after the flavors meld. A tad more time consuming
than the average carrot cake, but well worth it!
by MizzNezz
12
servings
1½ hours
25 min prep
1½ hours
| 2 | cups sugar | |
| 3/4 | cup buttermilk | |
| 3/4 | cup vegetable oil | |
| 3 | eggs, beaten | |
| 2 | teaspoons vanilla | |
| 2 | cups flour | |
| 2 | teaspoons baking soda | |
| 1/2 | teaspoon salt | |
| 2 | teaspoons cinnamon | |
| 2 | cups grated carrots | |
| 1 | cup chopped walnuts (optional) | |
| 1 (8 | ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained | |
| 1 1/4 | cups coconut | |
Buttermilk Glaze |
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| 1 | cup sugar | |
| 1/2 | cup buttermilk | |
| 1/2 | cup butter | |
| 1 | tablespoon light corn syrup | |
| 1/2 | teaspoon baking soda | |
| 1 | teaspoon vanilla | |
Cream Cheese Frosting |
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| 8 | ounces cream cheese, softened | |
| 1/2 | cup butter or solid margarine, softened | |
| 1 (16 | ounce) package powdered sugar, sifted | |
| 1 | teaspoon vanilla | |
- Combine first 5 ingredients; beat well.
- Mix flour, soda, salt and cinnamon; add to creamed mixture; stir well.
- Add carrots, walnuts, pineapple and coconut; stir well.
- Pour batter into greased and floured 13x9 baking pan.
- Bake at 350° for 55 minutes, or until pick comes out clean.
- Pour buttermilk glaze over warm cake; let cake cool.
- Spread cream cheese frosting on top of cooled cake.
- Buttermilk Glaze: Combine first 5 ingredients in large saucepan.
- Bring to a boil; cook 4 minutes on medium heat.
- Remove from heat; add vanilla.
- Cream Cheese Frosting: Mix cream cheese and butter; beat until smooth.
- Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy.
- Stir in vanilla.
This cake was awesome, we are still eating it, each of us had two peices yesterday. It is a tad time consuming but well worth the time. We used the cream cheese frosting which always seems to taste better when its cold.
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