Carrot Cake

Moist and rich carrot cake with pineapple and coconut

Ingredients

Cake

  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp salt
  • ¾ cup buttermilk
  • ¾ cup vegetable oil
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3 eggs, beaten
  • 7 oz shredded coconut
  • 1 cup pineapple, crushed and drained
  • ½ cup golden raisins
  • ½ cup pecans (optional)
  • 2 cups raw carrots, finely shredded

Icing

  • 12 oz cream cheese, softened
  • 1 stick butter, softened
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 16 oz powdered sugar

Instructions

Cake

  1. Preheat oven to 350*.
  2. Grease and flour 13″x9″ pan.
  3. Mix together dry ingredients (baking soda, flour, sugar, cinnamon, and salt).
  4. Stir in wet ingredients, one at a time (buttermilk, oil, vanilla, eggs).
  5. Stir in remaining ingredients, one at a time (coconut, pineapple, raisins, nuts, carrots).
  6. Bake at 350* for 50 minutes.
  7. Let cake cool before icing.

Icing

  1. Mix together cream cheese, butter, vanilla.
  2. Add in powdered sugar, slowly.
  3. Spread icing on cooled cake.
  4. Store cake in refrigerator until serving.