Cake Recipes
Blue Ribbon Carrot Cake
Yield: 20 to 24 servings
Ingredients
Cake
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 (8 ounce) can pineapple, crushed and drained
- 2 cups carrots, grated
- 3 1/2 ounces shredded coconut
- 1 cup seedless raisins
- 1 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
Buttermilk Glaze
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1/4 cup butter (1/2 stick)
- 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Frosting
- 1/4 cup butter (1/2 stick) (at room temperature)
- 8 ounces cream cheese (at room temperature)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon freshly-squeezed orange juice
- 1 teaspoon orange peel, grated
Instructions
- Cake: Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Generously grease a 13 x 9-inch baking pan or two 9-inch cake pans.
- Sift flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt together; set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat eggs.
- Add oil, buttermilk, sugar and vanilla extract and mix well.
- Add flour mixture, pineapple, carrots, coconut, raisins and walnuts and stir well.
- Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake for 45 to 55 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Buttermilk Glaze: In a small saucepan over high heat, combine sugar, baking soda, buttermilk, butter and corn syrup. Bring to a boil. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract. Set glaze aside until cake is baked.
- Remove cake from oven and slowly pour glaze over hot cake. Cool cake in pan until glaze is totally absorbed, about 15 minutes.
- Frosting: In a large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until luffy.
- Add vanilla extract, confectioners' sugar, orange juice and orange peel. Mix until smooth.
- Frost cake and refrigerate until frosting is set.
- Serve cake chilled.
Source: From Portland's Palate - The Junior League of Portland, Oregon - 1992