Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Icing

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1 1/2-2 cups sugar
• 2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 cup oil
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 pinch salt
• 3 cups carrots, shredded

Recipe

• 1 mix the sugar, flour, baking soda and cinnamon.
• 2 beat the oil, eggs, vanilla and salt together until they are well blended.
• 3 combine the dry ingredients, oil and egg mixture and grated carrots just until they are mixed.
• 4 pour the batter into two 10" round pans greased with butter.
• 5 bake in 325 oven for one hour.
• 6 remove it from the oven, let cool and remove from the pans.
• 7 cream cheese icing.
• 8 1 large pkg. of cream cheese at room temperature.
• 9 1/2 cups sweet butter at room temperature.
• 10 3 1/2 cups icing sugar
• 11 1 tsp pure vanilla.
• 12 1 tbsp orange juice.
• 13 mix all the ingredients and ice the cake, using some icing between the two layers.
• 14 garnish the cake with cinnamon and walnut halves.