2012-01-03: Mom's Carrot Cake

Going back to the brownies again, some went to my parents, I traded some with my brother for another recipe ingredient, and I have more brownies in the fridge.  I wonder if it freezes well.

This second recipe was also written out by Mom on a piece of 80's computer paper - the kind with traction holes along the side.  It was written below her brownie recipe (the one without instructions).  So again, I feel ok about putting the recipe here, but I'm not taking responsibility for the results, if anyone else decides to try this out!!!

Carrot Cake
2 Cups All Purpose Flour
2 tsp Baking Powder
2 tsp Baking Soda
2 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp allspice
4 eggs
1 1/4C sugar
1/4 C honey
1 1/4C oil
3C carrots
1C crushed pineapple
1/2C "coco" (did she mean cocoa powder or coconut??)
1/2C raisins

Icing
2 boxes of cream cheese (500g)
1C butter
3 Tbsp Honey (I omitted this)
2 tsp Vanilla (I omitted this)
4C Icing Sugar

1) Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and spices.
2) In a separate bowl, beat eggs, sugar and honey.
3) Add oil and beat for about a minute.
4) Stir in the carrots, pineapple, coconut, raisins and walnuts to wet ingredients.
5) Mix in dry ingredients.
6) Put into a greased cake pan.
7) Preheat oven to 400F. Bake 5 minutes.
8) Reduce heat to 350F. Bake 25 minutes, or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
9) Beat icing ingredients together. Spread over the cooled cake.

Now, I realized a few things after I started putting the ingredients together.  Firstly, the instructions calls for walnuts, however this was not included in the ingredient list for the Carrot Cake.  It was listed under the ingredients for Mom's Brownies.  So the amount of walnuts which I threw into the cake was a bit of a guess.  Secondly, when I started putting the icing together, I totally forgot about the vanilla and decided against putting in the honey, since there was already so much sugar in the cake.  Thirdly ... I forgot the cake was supposed to cook for only 25 minutes and left it in there a little bit longer than intended.

At least it didn't get burnt.