I found this recipe in my Mom’s Recipe Box. I am sure she clipped it out because this recipe does not contain raisins or pineapple or coconut in the cake. It is to be made as a three layer cake, so there is lots of icing per bite — This would be important if I were serving to my husband 😉
Ingredients
Carrot Cake
Cream Cheese Frosting
Carrot Cake
Cream Cheese Frosting
Nutrients
Calories 993.4
Calories from Fat 540 g
Total Fat 60 g
Saturated Fat 16.4 g
Cholesterol 133.9 mg
Sodium 588.7 mg
Total Carbohydrate 110.1 g
Dietary Fiber 2.8 g
Sugars 86.7 g
Protein 8.2 g
Step by step method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Step 2
Grease and flour three 9" cake pans.
Step 3
Combine first 7 ingredients (carrots, flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon); stir in eggs, oil, and vanilla.
Step 4
Spoon batter into the 3 prepared pans; bake for 30 minutes or until cakes test done.
Step 5
Spread with Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe follows) between layers while still warm.
Cream Cheese Frosting
Cream together powdered sugar, cream cheese, butter and vanilla until well blended; sir in pecans. This will be enough icing to frost the tops of three 9" layer cakes.