Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups carrots, grated
• 2 cups flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 4 eggs, well beaten
• 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 16 ounces powdered sugar
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup pecans, chopped

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 grease and flour three 9" cake pans.
• 3 combine first 7 ingredients (carrots, flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon); stir in eggs, oil, and vanilla.
• 4 spoon batter into the 3 prepared pans; bake for 30 minutes or until cakes test done.
• 5 spread with cream cheese frosting (recipe follows) between layers while still warm.
• 6 cream cheese frosting:.
• 7 cream together powdered sugar, cream cheese, butter and vanilla until well blended; sir in pecans. this is be enough icing to frost the tops of three 9" layer cakes.