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Pam's Carrot Cake
(Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing)

Love this - My favorite cake! 
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 Cake Ingredients:
3 cups All-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 & 1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
2 cups sugar
1 & 1/2 cups vegetable oil
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 & 1/2 cups coarsely shredded carrots, not packed down
1 (8 oz.) can crushed pineapple, drained (reserve juice for later)

1 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup raisins (soak well to plump, then drain)
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Cake Instructions:
  1. Grease 9 x 13 baking dish.  
  2. Whisk together in a mixing bowl:  flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Set aside.
  3. In a separate bowl,  beat sugar, oil, and vanilla together.  Add eggs one at a time, beating a bit after each addition.
  4. Beat in reserved pineapple juice.
  5. With a spoon, fold in shredded carrots, drained pineapple, nuts, and raisins.  
  6. Pour into greased pan. Bake in preheated oven at 350° for 35 - 40 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean. 
  7. Let cool COMPLETELY before icing.
Frosting Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter (softened)
16 ounces cream cheese (room temperature)
3 & 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar (sift first)
1/8 tsp salt
​1 tsp vanilla extract

Frosting Instructions:
  1. Beat together the cream cheese and butter until blended and slightly fluffy.
  2. Beat in sifted confectioner's sugar - a bit at a time.  
  3. Beat in salt and vanilla.
  4. Spread on cooled carrot cake!
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