HELEN'S CARROT CAKE

Carrot cake with cream cheese filling

I got this recipe originally from The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon.

Ingredients

(Serves 12)

4 eggs, separated
300 g sugar
1 cup carrots, grated
100 g walnuts, finely grated
150 g flour
5 ml baking powder
1 ml nutmeg
2.5 ml cinnamon
5 ml vanilla
" salt
25 cl oil
40 ml hot water
2.5 ml baking soda

Filling

250 g cream cheese
100 g sugar
12 cl strawberry, apricot or raspberry jam

Frosting

25 cl whipping cream
30 ml sugar

Procedure

Preheat oven to 175C Cream together egg yolks and 200 g of the sugar until the yolk color lightens. Stir in carrots, nuts, flour, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla, salt and oil.
Mix together hot water and soda and stir into flour mixture.
Beat egg whites until foamy. Gradually add remaining sugar. Beat until stiff and glossy.
Fold egg white mixture into flour mixture.
Turn mixture into a greased 33 x 22-cm pan lined with greased wax paper and bake for 45 minutes or until done. Cool.
Slice in half horizontally, to form two layers.
Make the cream cheese filling: soften the cream cheese and beat in the sugar, mixing gradually, until the filling is smooth and fluffy. A food processor works well for this.
Cover bottom layer with cream cheese filling, then cover cream cheese layer with jam. Place the top layer of the cake carefully on top of the jam.
Make the frosting: beat the whipping cream until slightly stiff, then add the sugar and beat the mixture to stiff peaks. Frost the entire cake with whipped cream.

Rating

Difficulty: easy to moderate.
Time: 30 minutes preparation, 1 hour baking and cooling, 10 minutes frosting.
Precision: measure the ingredients.

Contributor

 
Gary L. Scott 
Tektronix, Inc, Beaverton Oregon, USA 
garys@tekcbi.UUCP

Recipe last modified: 4 Feb 86

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