Round Carrot Cake
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup of brown sugar
- 1 1/2 cups of white sugar
- 2 cups of all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups of shredded carrots
- 1/4 cup of walnuts
- 1 cup of raisins
- 1 cup of butter
- 3 cups of confectionary sugar
- 8 ounces of cream cheese
Recipe
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 9 inch round baking pans (3) with cooking spray and dust with flour.
- Mix sugar, oil, and eggs in an electric mixer until smooth.
- Mix flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
Add the dry mixture to the egg mixture and combine with an electric mixer.
- Combine raisins, carrots, and brown sugar in bowl. Let sit for 10 to 15 minutes.
- After raisin mixture has sat for 15 minutes, slowly add it to the cake batter.
- Pour batter into cake pans and place on the middle rack of the oven. Bakes for 50 minutes.
- Let the cake cool before icing or the icing will melt and ruin the cake.
Icing
- In an electric mixer on medium to slow speed, combine sugar, butter, eggs, and cream cheese. Stir in walnuts if wanted.
- Spread onto cake when cold.
Adapted from Paula Deen's Carrot Cake recipe from "Paula Deen Celebrates"Deen, P. (2006). Paula deen celebrates!. New York: Simon and Schuster.
All decorative icings used are a royal icing