Carrot Cake & Cream Cheese Icing

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup canola oil
• 1/2 cup applesauce (subsistution 1/2 cup crushed pineapple)
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups carrots
• 1/2 cup walnut pieces (substitution 1/2 cup pecans)
• 1 1/2 cups flour (all-purpose)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup margarine (subsistution1/3 cup butter)
• 4 ounces cream cheese (softened)
• 2 cups icing sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 tablespoon orange juice
• 1 teaspoon orange peel (grated)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 spray a 13 x 9 inch rectangular pan with cooking spray.
• 3 in a small bowl, whisk sugar, oil, applesauce or crushed pineapple and eggs until smooth.
• 4 stir in grated carrot and nuts.
• 5 in a large mixing bowl, combine flour baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
• 6 stir liquid mixture into flour mixture, and mix until flour is just moistened.
• 7 spread the batter in the prepared pan.
• 8 bake 30 to 40 minutes or until wooden pick comes out clean.
• 9 cool cake in pan set on wire rack.
• 10 cake can be turn out upside down in about 15 minutes so cake can cool completely before icing.
• 11 icing.
• 12 cream margarine and cream cheese together.
• 13 add icing sugar, vanilla, and enough orange juice to make a fairly stiff icing.
• 14 ice cake and sprinkle with orange peel.
• 15 chill to set icing.
• 16 note:.
• 17 if you want to ice the sides of the cake as well use 8 oz of cream cheese instead of 4oz.