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- From: ginab@panix.com
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: Blue Ribbon Carrot Cake
- Date: 16 Nov 1994 10:19:58 -0500
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
- Message-ID: <3ad7uu$ej9@junior.wariat.org>
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- Blue Ribbon Carrot Cake
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- CAKE:
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- 2 cups flour
- 2 tsp soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 3 eggs, well beaten
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 8-oz can crushed pineapple, drained
- 2 cups grated carrots
- 1 3-1/3-oz can flaked coconut
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- Buttermilk Glaze
- Orange-Cream Cheese Frosting
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- Combine flour, soda, salt, and cinnamon; set aside.
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- Combine eggs, oil, buttermilk, sugar and vanilla; beat
- until smooth. Stir in four mixture, pineapple, carrots,
- coconut, and chopped walnuts. Pour batter in to 2 greased
- and floured 9 inch round cake pans.
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- Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes or until a wooden
- pick inserted in center comes out clean. Immediately spread
- Buttermilk Glaze evenly over layers. Cool in pans 15 minutes;
- remove from pans, let cool completely. Spread Orange-Cream Cheese
- Frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake. Store cake in
- refrigerator.
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- BUTTERMILK GLAZE:
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- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp soda
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 Tbs light corn syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
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- Combine sugar, soda, buttermilk, butter and corn syrup in a Dutch
- oven. Bring to a boil; cook 4 minutes, stirring often. Remove from
- heat, and stir in vanilla.
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- ORANGE-CREAM CHEESE FROSTING:
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- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 8-oz package cream cheese, softened
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups sifted powdered sugar
- 1 tsp grated orange rind
- 1 tsp orange juice
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- Combine butter and cream cheese, beating until light and fluffy.
- Add vanilla powdered sugar, rind and juice; beat until smooth.
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