Carrot Cake With Variations Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Sift the dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl.2. Combine the applesauce, oil, vanilla and eggs and add them to the flour mixture, stirring until the ingredients are well blended.3. Add the carrots and mix again.4. Pour the batter into a 9-inch tube pan coated with nonstick vegetable cooking spray. Bake at 350°F for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted in thickest part of the cake comes out clean. Set the cake pan on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Then remove cake form pan. Or our batter into a microwave-safe tube pan and microwave for about 10-12 minutes.EXCHANGES1 Fat Meat1 Starch/BreadNUTRITION FACTSCalories 128Total Fat 4 grams Saturated Fat 1 gramCholesterol 27 milligramsSodium 198 milligrams (without added salt 126 milligrams)Total Carbohydrate 20 grams Dietary Fiber 1 gramProtein 3 grams

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 (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan.
• In a large bowl, beat together eggs, oil, white sugar and 2 teaspoons vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Stir in carrots. Fold in pecans. Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
• To Make Frosting: In a medium bowl, combine butter, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until the mixture is smooth and creamy. Stir in chopped pecans. Frost the cooled cake.