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cracked up carrot cake

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Recipe by
Rose M. Helle
@recipes4fun
The Villages, FL

This is a wonderful recipe made in a tube pan, but I inverted the tube pan when the cake had not cooled completely - hence the crumbled version. Suggest make the cake and filling the same day, chill overnight. Split cake into 3 layers, fill with filling, then freeze cake. Frost cake with cream cheese mixture on top and sides when cake is still frozen.

yield 10 -12
prep time 1 Hr 30 Min
cook time 1 Hr 10 Min
method Bake

Ingredients For cracked up carrot cake

  • 1-1/4 c
    corn oil
  • 2 c
    sugar
  • 2 c
    less 2 tab flour
  • 2 tsp
    cinnamon
  • 2 tsp
    baking powder
  • 1 tsp
    baking soda
  • 1 tsp
    salt
  • 4
    eggs
  • 4 c
    grated carrots
  • 1 c
    raisins
  • 1 c
    chopped pecans
  • BASE OF CAKE

How To Make cracked up carrot cake

  • 1
    Whisk together corn oil, sugar. In seperate bowl, mix the dry ingredients together.
  • 2
    Sift half of the dry ingredients into the sugar/oil mixture. Alternately add the rest with the 4 eggs. Add the carrots, raisins and pecans.
  • 3
    Bake in a greased and floured 10" tube pan at 350 degrees for 70 minutes. Cool, invert and split in 3 layers.
  • 4
    FILLING: Heat one cup sugar, 3 Tab flour, 1/2 tsp salt. Stir in 1 cup heavy cream. Work in 1/4 lb sweet butter. Stir and simmer 1/2 hour til golden. Cool. Add 1/2 teas vanilla and 3/4 cup chopped pecans. Cool overnight.
  • 5
    FROSTING: Cream 1/2lb each cream cheese and sweet butter. Sift in 1 lb powdered sugar and 1 tsp vanilla. Chill. Toast 4oz shredded coconut.
  • 6
    Spread the filling in between the three layers. Frost the top and sides with the cream cheese mixture. Pat the coconut on the sides . Decorate the top if desired.
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