This is a really tried and tested recipe. It disappears in about 2 minutes LOL
150g plain flour
1 tsp bicarb of soda
1 tsp baking powder. (I just use a sachet - don't know what you have in Germany)
1 tsp cinnamon
150g sugar (I use less)
250g grated carrot
Seive the powders into a bowl. Add sugar, carrots and walnuts.
Pour in oil, eggs and vanilla. Beat for 1 minute.
Bake at 180°C for 20 to 25 mins.

For the icing :
100g cream cheese mixed with 100g icing sugar and 1/2 tsp vanilla essence.
Very light and delicious!

This is Linda C's recipe and it is drop dead delicious!

Carrot Cake - Lindac

3 eggs
3/4 cups vegetable oil
3/4 cups buttermilk
2 cups sugar
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
2 tsp Baking Soda
3/4 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
1 8 oz can crushed pineapple, drained
2 cups grated carrots
1/2 cup raisins chopped with 1 TBSP of flour

Buttermilk glaze
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup butter
1 TBSP light corn syrup
1 tsp vanilla

Orange Cream Cheese Frosting
1/2 cup softened butter
4 oz softened cream cheese
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp orange juice
1 tsp grated orange rind

Preheat oven to 350

With a mixer Beat eggs, add oil and buttermilk, sugar and vanilla. beat to combine. Stir together flour, salt, cinnamon and baking soda and stir into batter. stir in pineapple, carrots and raisins.

Pour into a greased 8 by 13 pan or 2 greased round 9 inch cake pans.

Bake 35 to 45 minutes until set in the middle. Remove from the oven and immediatly spread with the buttermilk glaze.

Cool completely and frost with the cream cheese frosting.

Buttermilk glaze:
In a medium sauce pan ( don't use a small pan) combine all ingredients but vanilla. Bring to a boil and cook 3 minutes stirring often...it will bubble a lot. It should be a light caramel color, stir in vanilla and pour over the cake

Cream cheese frosting:

Beat cream cheese and butter until light add vanilla powdered sugar and juice and rind...beat until smooth and frost the cooled cake.

Linda C

I haven't used Linda's glaze and icing recipe I just use a regular cream cheese icing

I think there's something wrong with the search function, because there is a great carrot cake recipe in the Pineapple Cookalong thread. I tried searching last night for "lentil" recipes and it came up blank, and I know we've had several lentil threads recently.

There's always something wrong with the search function, and we're missing threads again too, like the WFD 306. Sigh.

My carrot cake recipe is very similar to LindaC's, I like the addition of pineapple and raisins in carrot cake, but I don't like nuts. I use a plain cream cheese frosting like Sharon does, though.

Annie

Plain cream cheese frosting....you mean just creamcheese and powdered sugar? no butter? Or no grated peel in the mix?

Linda, mine is cream cheese, icing sugar, butter, and vanilla. No citrus, although I like that idea and may try it next time.

Another nod to LindaC's Carrot Cake - I leave out the nuts too, we have enough nuts in our house - but I do the frosting as written. DEEEEEEELISH!

Alexa

Yup, Sharon, mine too, just cream cheese, butter, vanilla and powdered sugar. I'd like the orange zest but everyone else would pick it out and David would scrape off the frosting if it had orange juice in it.

Then again, he picks the raisins out of the cake too...

Annie

Thanks, everyone.

Cake is in the oven. I used applesauce instead of pineapple, but everything else is the same.
I am not going to glaze it, because it would be then way too sweet for our friends over here. I am pushing it with the frosting. LOL
Lisa

That carrot cake, as written is lower in fat than other carrot cake recipes....but sugar? Oh my!
As written....5 1/2 cups of sugar!
I suspect that subbing apple sauce for pineapple will result in a very moist cake....almost too wet....
But then you aren't pouring the glaze over it so.....who knows.

It did turn out very moist,but not too wet.Delicious. Thanks again for the help.
Lisa

Glad it worked out for you!

Alexa

I made Linda's frosting yesterday for carrot cake. Yum. Even Alice, who claims not to like cream cheese frosting, said "that's good stuff."

I made the carrot cake recipe from Jame's Beard's American Cookery. (I'll post it with my comments if anyone wants it.) It has some orange zest in it so it paired well with the frosting. I added two pods of cardamom crushed, extra cinnamon and brandy plumped raisins to the recipe. Orange and cardamom work well together.

Yum Eileen, What time will you be serving tea?

Beverly

As soon as you get here, Beverly! I can't stay out of this cake...