Sara lee's carrot square cake
Yield: 6 Servings WAL
Ingredients:
- 2 Eggs
- 1 ts Vanilla
- 6 oz Oil
- 1 ts Salt
- 1 1/2 ts Baking powder
- 2 ts Cinnamon
- 1 c Sugar
- 1 1/4 c All-purpose flour
- 1 c Carrots -- grate fine
- 1 c Walnuts -- well-chopped
- 1/2 c Light raisins -- optional CREAM CHEESE ICING
- 6 oz Cream cheese -- softened
- 1/4 lb Butter
- 1 lb Powdered sugar
- 1 1/2 ts Orange extract
- 1 ts Spice Island orange peel
- 1 tb Light corn syrup or pancake Syrup
- 1 tb Cornstarch or flour
Instructions:
Combine first 8 ingredients with electric mixer on medium-high. Beat 3 minutes scraping down sides of bowl often. Remove beaters. Stir in last 3 ingredients. Grease and flour 9"square pan. Spread batter evenly in pan. Bake at 325~ about 50 minutes. Cool in pan about 30 minutes. Frost with Cream Cheese Frosting and sprinkle with additional walnuts. ICING-Cream the cream cheese with the butter until light and fluffy using med-high spped of electric mixer. Add half of the sugar increasing speed to high. Add extract and peel and beat about 1 minute. Scrape down sides of bowl often. Resume beating adding remaining powdered sugar. Beat smooth. Frost sides and top of cake. Source: Gloria Pitzer Recipe By :
