CARROT CAKE

UCLA Medical center carrot cake

Ingredients

Cake

• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups flour, sifted
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 2 tsp soda
• 2 tsp nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp cardamom
• 1 cup walnuts, chopped finely
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup crushed pineapple, well drained
• 2 cups carrots, shredded and packed

Frosting

• 3 oz cream cheese
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 3 Tbsp pineapple, crushed, chopped and well drained
• 1/4 cup walnuts, chopped
• 1/8 tsp cardamom

Procedure cake

1. Cream butter until soft. Gradually add sugar and beat until fluffy, at least ten minutes. Beat in eggs one at a time until thoroughly blended. Add vanilla.
2. In a separate bowl sift flour, salt, cinnamon, soda, nutmeg and cardamom together several times and set aside.
3. Add walnuts, pineapple, raisins and carrots to egg-sugar mixture. Stir in flour mixture and mix well.
4. Pour into greased and floured pan and bake at for 1 hour. Cool completely.
5. Apply frosting.

Procedure frosting

1. Mix cream cheese, butter and powdered sugar until fluffy.
2. Add pineapple, walnuts and cardamom. Blend well.

Rating

Contributor

 
Gary L. Scott 
Tektronix, Inc, Beaverton, Oregon, USA 
{hplabs,decvax}tektronix!tekcbi!garys garys@tekcbi.uss.tek.com 
 
 

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