Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
- 3 cups flour
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 12 cups corn oil or 1 12 cups oil
- 4 eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1 13 cups pureed carrots
- 34 cup grated carrot
- cream cheese frosting
- 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temp
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3 cups icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 12 lemon, juice of (optional)
- Pre-heat oven to 350.
- Grease two 9 inch pans, square or round (I made mine into muffins).
- Mix together flour, sugar, salt, baking soda and cinnamon.
- Add oil, eggs, and vanilla and beat well with an electric mixer.
- Fold in pureed carrots and grated carrots.
- Pour batter into prepared pans and bake for 40 to 50 minutes or until edges have pulled away from sides.
- Let cool for 3 hours before icing.
- To make frosting cream together cream cheese and butter with an electric mixer.
- Slowly add in the icing sugar and beat until smooth.
- Mix together vanilla and lemon juice and add just enough for the frosting to be of spreading consistency.
- (I added all of the vanilla and lemon and found this to be too much) Smooth frosting over sides of cake.
- Makes 2 small or one 2-layer cake.
flour, granulated sugar, salt, baking soda, ground cinnamon, corn oil, eggs, vanilla, carrots, carrot, cream cheese frosting, cream cheese, unsalted butter, icing sugar, vanilla, lemon
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/carrot-cake-with-cream-cheese-frosting-252891 (may not work)