CARROT CORNUCOPIA CAKE

Carrot Cornucopia Cake image

A really good, dense carrot spice cake. It is our traditional Easter dessert and a real showstopper when decorated with green-tinted coconut and jellybeans to resemble an Easter basket. Frost with a basic cream cheese frosting with a little vanilla and lemon juice. Yum!

Provided by Elizabeth Woodfin Moll

Categories Desserts Cakes

Time 2h

Yield 10

Number Of Ingredients 15

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Ingredients

3 ¼ cups cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon ground allspice
½ teaspoon ground mace
½ teaspoon salt
2 cups white sugar
1 ½ cups vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 (8.5 ounce) can crushed pineapple, undrained
2 cups coarsely shredded carrots
¾ cup chopped pecans
½ cup golden raisins

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
Mix cake flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, allspice, mace, and salt together in a large bowl.
Combine sugar, vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla extract in a large bowl; beat well. Beat in pineapple and carrots. Mix in flour mixture until well blended. Fold pecans and golden raisins into the batter.
Pour batter into the prepared baking pan.
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Invert onto a large plate. Let cool completely, about 30 minutes.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 742 calories, Carbohydrate 90.7 g, Cholesterol 55.8 mg, Fat 40.6 g, Fiber 3 g, Protein 7.1 g, SaturatedFat 6.2 g, Sodium 378.2 mg, Sugar 50 g