Country Carrot Cake Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Sift flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon together. Add the sugar, oil and eggs, and vanilla. Beat until well blended. Add in well drained pineapple, carrots, coconut, raisins, and nuts. Divide the batter between twp 9" greased and floured round cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 min. While cake is baking. Make the frosting.
• 2. Cream Cheese frosting- Beat softened butter,and cream cheese together until well blended. Add Powdered sugar a little at a time until smooth. Add in vanilla and beat well. Frosting will be thick. Cover bowl of frosting plastic wrap. Press wrap up against frosting so no air gets in. Set aside.
• 3. Cake is done when pick comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool cakes. Turn on to racks. Place 1st layer down on platter. Frost top. Add 2nd layer,and frost top. and sides of entire cake. Optional: Garnish with Walnut's if desired. Keep the cake refrigerated.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, mix together sugar, oil, eggs, vanilla, and buttermilk. Stir in carrots, coconut, vanilla, and pineapple. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt; gently stir into carrot mixture. Stir in chopped nuts. Spread batter into prepared pan.
• Bake for 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean. Remove from oven, and set aside to cool.
• In a medium mixing bowl, combine butter or margarine, cream cheese, vanilla, and confectioners sugar. Blend until creamy. Frost cake while still in the pan.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a large bowl, stir together the flour, sweetener, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
• Add the milk, vanilla, oil, egg replacer, carrot, and ginger and mix together gently until just mixed.
• Pour into a lightly oiled cake pan and bake for 25-30 minutes.
• Check with a knife to see if done.
• When cooled, ice and serve.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan.
• In a large bowl, beat together eggs, oil, sugar and vanilla. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Add flour mixture to egg mixture. Stir in grated carrots and pecans or raisins if using. Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake for 40-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and let cool. Turn the cake over onto a platter and let cool completely before frosting.
• For frosting, beat cream cheese and butter together with a mixer. Add vanilla and powdered sugar, and beat until combined. If necessary, add a tablespoon or two of milk or cream until the frosting is the consistency you like for spreading.