Baking Day: Carrot Cake

What a yummy way to cook with veggies! We made Carrot Cake to correspond with our Veggie Unit this week.

This is an old family recipe and a favorite of mine. Hard to argue with a Cream Cheese frosting. Bug got to help Gammy with the carrot chopping by using the food processor. Pretty cool! And the girls helped me with the mixing while eating their weight in carrots.

Carrot Cake

INGREDIENTS

Cake:

1 1/2 c. sugar

1 3/4 c. mazola oil

4 eggs

2 c. flour

2 t. soda

3 c. grated carrots

1/2 c. chopped nuts

1 t. vanilla

dash salt

1 1/2 t. cinnamon

Icing:

1 4 oz. package cream cheese, room temp.

2 t. vanilla

1/4 c. butter

powder sugar

DIRECTIONS

Mix all cake ingredients together. Pour into greased and floured 9×13 pan. Bake in 300 oven for 1 hour or until done. Let cool. Blend all icing ingredients together and frost on cooled cake.