Cake:
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 2 teaspoons baking soda
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
* 3 large eggs
* 2 cups sugar
* 3/4 cup vegetable oil
* 3/4 cup buttermilk
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 2 cups grated carrot
* 1 (8-ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
* 1 (3 1/2-ounce) can flaked coconut
* 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
Combine eggs, sugar, oil, milk and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Add the dry ingredients. Fold in the pineapple, coconut, nuts, and carrots. Bake in a 350° oven for 25-30 minutes. Drizzle with glaze and frost.
Glaze:
* 1 cup sugar
* 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
* 1/2 cup buttermilk
* 1/2 cup butter or margarine
* 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Combine first five ingredients in a pot. Boil 4 minutes. Drizzle over cake and let sit for 15 minutes.
Frosting:
* 3/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
* 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
* 1 (3-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
* 3 cups sifted powdered sugar
* 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Beat butter and cream cheese till smooth. Add powdered sugar and vanilla.
3 comments:
Lis, that cake was REALLY good, but I just plugged the numbers into http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php,and counting it as making 18 servings, that's still 600 cals a slice!!! I cannot condone it. What if we take our cousin Laura's carrot-zucchini muffin recipe, make that into a cake instead, and then frost it with the good frosting? Not the glaze though. That's just too much:)
On the other hand, this blog of yours WOULD make a perfect arch-nemesis antiblog to Laura's "My Healthy Attempts"--even the name "Applesauce With Sugar" shows your culinary disdain for all sugar-and-fat-saving shortcuts! If only you didn't live so close and bring over delicious servings of all these decadent things you make, I'd encourage this rivalry more...
Well, all I have to say is to look at that the sub heading "tried and tested". These recipes are only posted if they beat my taste buds. Most low sugar stuff may be alright, but it has to blow me away to make this list. As for the zucchini muffin recipe--why on earth would I use a recipe from a rival? pshh no way. J/k we'll see.
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