Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Perfect Carrot Cake.

This is so fabulous that you may actually weep a little when you take the first bite.

Carrot Cake

1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
2 cups plain flour
2 tsp. Baking soda
3 tsp. Cinnamon
1 tsp salt
1 cup oil
4 eggs
3 cups grated carrots
1 tsp. Vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup drained, crushed pineapple

Mix dry ingredients. Add oil, eggs, carrots, vanilla, pecans, and pineapple. Bake in 3 pans at 350 for about 40 minutes.

Icing

1/2 stick butter
1 8oz cream cheese
1 box powdered sugar
2 tsp. Vanilla
1 T. Milk (about)

1 comment:

tlm said...

My advice: grate the carrots in the food processor! Three cups is a lot of grated carrots, and if you do them by hand, you will be completely sick of carrots long before it is time to eat cake.