Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing

Title:
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing

Yield:
10 Servings

Categories:
Frostings




Ingredients:





     2 c  All-purpose flour


     2 ts Ground cinnamon


     1 ts Baking powder


   1/4 ts Salt


   2/3 c  Butter; softened


     1 c  Granulated sugar


     3 lg Eggs


   2/3 c  Milk


     3 md Carrots; grated


   1/2 c  Coarsely chopped walnuts





-----------------------------------ICING-----------------------------------


     1    Stick butter; softened


     4 oz Cream cheese; softened


     1 ts Vanilla extract


 2 1/2 c  Confectioners' sugar



----------------------------------TOPPING----------------------------------


   1/4 c  Finely chopped walnuts


     2 tb Firmly packed light brown


          -sugar





 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9-inch round cake pan. Dust with


 flour; tap out excess.


 


 2. Mix together flour, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt.


 


 3. Beat together butter and sugar at medium speed until light and fluffy.


 Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. At low speed,


 alternately beat flour mixture and milk into butter mixture. Stir in


 carrots and nuts. Pour batter into prepared pan.


 


 4. Bake cake until top springs back when lightly touched and a toothpick


 inserted in center comes out clean, 40 minutes.  Transfer pan to a wire


 rack to cool for 10 minutes. Turn cake out onto rack to cool completely.


 


 5. To prepare icing, beat together butter and cream cheese at medium speed


 until completely smooth. Beat in vanilla. Beat in confectioners' sugar


 until well blended. To prepare topping, mix together nuts and brown sugar.


 


 6. Place cake on a serving plate.  Spread icing over top and sides.


 Sprinkle with nut mixture.


 


 FROM "GREAT AMERICAN HOME


 


 BAKING" CARDS


 


 From a collection of my mother's (Judy Hosey) recipe box which contained


 lots of her favorite recipes, clippings, etc.  Downloaded from Glen's MM


 Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.