Killer Carrot Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups grated carrots
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1 -2 teaspoon cinnamon (depends if you like strong flavor or not)
• 1 -2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 -2 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1 -2 teaspoon mace
• 1 -2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda (sometimes i leave this out)
• 2 cups flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 6 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence (you can put almond if you like)
• 1 cup chopped walnuts
• 1 cup raisins, tossed in (optional)
• flour (so they dont sink to the bottom of the pan) (optional)
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/2-3/4 cup icing sugar (i cut down on the sugar because i like it slightly sour)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350 degrees farenheit.
• 2 grease and flour 10" baking pan.
• 3 pour oil and carrots into a mixing bowl and mix till combined.
• 4 add in eggs one by one whilst beating on medium speed.
• 5 add in sugar and beat until sugar is dissolved and the mixture is frothy and light in color.
• 6 make sure to beat until sugar is dissolved! if not the sugar will form a crust on top of the cake whilst baking.
• 7 add in the spices and vanilla / almond essence.
• 8 lastly add in the flour which has been sifted along with the baking powder and soda.
• 9 when adding in the flour just mix it in with a wooden spoon and swirl in a figure eight until flour is just combined. this is to make sure you dont let out excess air.
• 10 add in nuts.
• 11 pour batter into pan and bake until cake begins to shrink off sides and toothpick inserted comes out clean, approximately 45 minutes.
• 12 when cake is cool put on icing.
• 13 for icing beat the cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy.
• 14 add in icing sugar and vanilla and beat till smooth.