Recipe 49

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Recipe name and category: Carrot Cake-Dessert

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Recipe ingredients and directions:

1-3/4 cup sugar

1-1/4 cup oil

4 eggs

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

2 tsp baking soda

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp salt

3 cups shredded carrots

1 cup chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour three 9” round cake pans. Mix together sugar, oil and eggs. Mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt, then add to sugar mixture. Add carrots and walnuts to cake mixture. Bake in 350˚ oven for 30-35 minutes.

Icing

20 oz. canned, crushed pineapple, well drained

½ stick butter

8 oz cream cheese

2 tsp vanilla

1 box powdered sugar

Blend butter, cream cheese, vanilla and powdered sugar together. Frost each layer of cake with frosting, then add a layer of pineapple. Continue with another alyer of cake, frosting and pineapple. Top with the third layer of cake and remaining frosting.

Recipe source: Jeremy and Anna’s great grandmother “Nana”

Recipe anecdote: I substitute for the oil: ¾ cup oil and 1 baby food prunes.