Carrot Cake
A moist carrot cake with nuts, raisins, and pineapple, perfect with white chocolate or cream cheese frosting.
Ingredients
eggs
4
vegetable oil
1 cup
Pure Vanilla Extract
1 teaspoon
all-purpose flour
2 cups
sugar
2 cups
baking soda
2 teaspoons
cinnamon
2 teaspoons
nutmeg, cloves, allspice and salt
1/4 teaspoon each
grated carrots
4 cups (approx. 1 lb.)
chopped nuts
2/3 cup
raisins
1/2 cup
crushed pineapple (drained)
1/2 cup
Instructions
1
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly spray 2 9-inch round pans with vegetable spray, or grease the pans.
2
Step 2
In a large mixing bowl, beat eggs until foamy; add oil and vanilla and beat well.
3
Step 3
Mix flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice and salt together; add to egg mixture and mix well. Fold in carrots, nuts, raisins and pineapple.
4
Step 4
Pour into prepared pans and bake 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pans on a wire rack and invert onto the rack to cool completely.